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I spoke to 99 big thinkers about what our 'world after coronavirus' might look like – this is what I learned

  • Written by Adil Najam, Dean, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
imageAdil Najam, international relations professor at Boston University, interviewed 99 experts about what the post-pandemic future will bring.Pardee Center/Boston University, CC BY-SA

Back in March, my colleagues at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University thought that it might be useful to begin...

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