The Future After COVID: Futurist Expectations for Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities After the COVID-19 Pandemic by Schenker Jason

Author:Schenker, Jason [Schenker, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prestige Professional Publishing, LLC
Published: 2020-04-02T16:00:00+00:00

People want to always feel secure in their access to medical care.

Society only functions if people have access to that food and that medical care and they feel secure in it.

This is why I believe we could see additional financial incentives or regulatory incentives from the government that shore up the supply chain in the future.

CHAPTER 12

THE FUTURE OF MEDIA

COVID-19 has magnified weaknesses and problems across industries. This is also true for media and social media. How people have responded to COVID-19 news and online posts does not bode well.

And it’s primarily because of false consensus bias.

For some time, social media has been fostering false consensus bias, which is the perception that what you believe is what everyone believes.

Essentially, this happens when you believe that your view is that of the consensus—even if you have fringe beliefs. This happens because even if only a handful of people on your Facebook feed agree with you, social media feeds optimize for interactions, which leads to individually optimized information feeds and personalized information curation. This, in turn, fosters a feeling that everyone believes what you do. Or, more specifically, what you and your peers believe to be true—is truth .

The whole experience of COVID-19 has been quite the bugaboo for the media. This is a situation that wasn’t fully understood at first. And to a certain degree, it is still not fully understood.

There has been a steady stream of changing and evolving data about the situation. And this evolving situation dynamic did not occur in a bubble. It occurred against the backdrop of increased subjectivist realities.

Highly individualized perceptions of importance and truth related to facts that stem from curation and feed into consensus bias are the backdrop. It’s part of the reason some people say that we are in a post-truth era.

This stems from the hyper-individualized nature of social media, which has fostered sub-national identities and subjectivist truths, among other things. So, even though COVID-19 became a full-blown pandemic, the evolving situation in which it became exponential had actually started very small.

The story was managed differently by various media sources, and it was perceived differently by viewers and across social media. Skepticism about how believable certain media or social media are contributed to some confusion.

There were so many unknowns, but people still rushed to become experts in COVID-19 quickly. After all, the importance of pandemic risk is so great that forecasters, futurists, analysts, strategists, executives, and politicians had to have a perspective on the topic .

Based on some of the recent political interference and psychological operations foreign actors have implemented using Facebook and other social media, this outcome is not unexpected.

After all, confusion stemming from a lack of real information led to the rise of false expertise and festering skepticism buttressed by adherence to subjectivist truth.

The media has always lived by the phrase “if it bleeds, it leads.” This is the idea that the more gruesome or shocking or horrifying a story is, the more important it is—and the higher the billing would be in print or television media.

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