1) Covid will end; mass bonfire celebrations of people burning masks will break out everywhere. (Backyard fireplace sales will quintuple by year end.)
Photo Credit: Airstream2Go
2) Coffee shops will become so busy you’ll have to take a number and stand in line to get in. (But think of the fun conversations you’ll have in line! And people will actually be able to understand you, because you won’t have a mask on.)
3) Getting “Zoomed” will come to mean when a stock craters – and I would so enjoy watching one in particular do that. (But there are so many other good stocks to buy, or just hold. Did somebody mention Apple?)
4) People will still be able to work from anywhere – but, you guessed it, the office won’t even be near the top of that list, to put it mildly. (Work-from-anywhere is a gift from God. #ForeverWFX!)
5) “Going downtown” will still suck, wherever you are. (But geography don’t lie: there’s still 97% of the USA that is not a city.)
6) You will never hear someone brag, “Hey, I get to go to New York City” or “I can’t wait to ride that subway.” (Sorry, not much to be positive about for NYC.)
7) Road trips will remain popular, RV prices will stay crazy high, and those stocks will be top performers. (Side note from my past experience: you’ll never be sorry if you buy an Airstream.)
8) Consumer air travel will come back faster than business travel – because, duh, people have been going crazy. (Book away!)
9) California will tax you for even thinking about traveling there. They’re already getting ready to tax out-of-state college students – no lie. (But no truth yet to the rumor they’ll charge you money at the border to drive your RV in.)
10) Austin TX will become its own state when more people and companies move there than the entire rest of the state’s population. The people running SXSW will be so ecstatic, their heads will explode and hotel accommodations for their next event will be booked all the way to Oklahoma. (Maybe just look for a parking place for your RV?)
Good luck, people. Keep smiling and thinking positively!
What…no prediction on the explosion in podcasting? Perhaps people will re-discover Minnov8 as we talk about (what will then be) old technology! 😉
Love it, Steve! We were way too far ahead of our time, But, hey, how many podcasts survive through 400 episodes? (A tribute mainly to you.) Interestingly, I just read that the podcast industry is in major hurt mode because commuting basically dropped off a cliff in 2020. It’s a hard way to make a living, as our podcast buddy Phil has pointed out. Only a tiny percentage of podcasts are profitable. We always had more lucrative things to do… 🙂