Eight trends to watch in 2021

Twenty-twenty, the year of the “cool number” previously associated with the positive — perfect vision — has been anything but cool and positive itself. A lot has gone wrong; most related to the global COVID epidemic, but not all of it (take months of rioting and civil unrest in the United States).

But, in a sense, COVID (much less 2020 in abstract) did not cause anything. Events merely reveal – they accelerate or decelerate (but rarely reverse) many political, social, economic and other trends that have already been present and acting upon a society.

From that perspective, 2021 is unlikely to bring anything truly new or unexpected to light, but is certain to see the continuation and progress of phenomena that…