“Crises usually accelerate real trends in society and technology, they don’t create or refute them,” chess champion Garry Kasparov wrote on Twitter about the coronavirus pandemic.

Social and economic changes most often occur in the direction of least resistance, starting with small, isolated, almost imperceptible alterations, then gradually diffusing and accelerating until they become visible as large shifts...

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