A Backwards Corona Forecast: Or how we will be surprised when the crisis is „over“.

At the moment I am often asked when Corona „will be over“ and when everything will return to normal. My answer is: never. There are historical moments when the future changes direction. We call them bifurcations. Or deep crises. These times are now.The world as we know it is dissolving. But behind it comes a new world, the formation of which we can at least imagine. For this I would like to offer you an exercise with which we have had good experiences in vision processes at companies. We call it the RE-gnosis. In contrast to the PRO-gnosis, we do not look „into the future“ with this technique. But from the future BACK to today. Sounds crazy? Let’s try it:

The RE-gnosis: Our world in autumn 2020

Let’s imagine a situation in autumn, let’s say in September 2020. We are sitting in a street cafe in a big city. It is warm and people are walking down the pavements again.

Do they move differently? Is everything the same as before? Does the wine, the cocktail, the coffee taste like it used to? Like it did before Corona?Or even better?Looking back, what will we be surprised about?

We will be surprised that our social distancing rarely led to a feeling