A pandemic it's not something that somebody wishes for. The administrative measures meant to slow down the spread of the new virus are based on common sense. A region where all are sick would produce many more victims and collateral damages than a quarantine.
The chain of events is now facing us with our new reality. For the first time in the history our globally connected communication systems are confronting us with the limitations of our resources and the pitfalls of taking for granted whatever information shared on the Internet.
The global warming and the effects of the chemical pollution are not yet evident for everybody, and it's possible to produce data sets and impacting presentations meant to deny them, but fever, pneumonia and the limited healthcare resources cannot go unnoticed.
The new virus threat has made aware numerous managers, clerks and teachers, that they already have the technology and tools they need for working remotely. Too many and too long meetings are counterproductive - that's one of the main messages of agile.
Business people have an unprecedented opportunity to learn more about the risks and drawbacks of long-distance supply chains, missing alternative sourcing, and in general how the economic slow-down of whichever macroregion is affecting the others.
The globalization's effects and consequences just cannot be swept under the carpet anymore. It's crystal clear that all the properties, productive capacities and inventions of the world are useless without proper knowledge and willingness to make use of them.
The most valuable asset of our epoch is the applicable knowledge. The rapid growth of tuition costs during the last decades, the real estate bubble, the decline of the hedge funds, and now the restless stock market are all signaling the fact, that rules are changing, it's time to rethink many of the old recipes.
Somewhat similarly to our immune system, the social media has also started to develop antibodies capable to identify and trash the destructive information, but that's a long process, and we are only at its beginning.
