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Is it farewell to the handshake? Virtual tours and drones are in. Junkets and steakhouses are out. How Covid-19 is reshaping a pillar of economic development in America.
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2021-03-20
"If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas." - Linus Pauling
Virtual tours and drones are in. Junkets and steakhouses are out. How Covid-19 is reshaping a pillar of economic development in America.
#GraphicTruth: In 2020, the volume of international tourism dropped to 1990 levels@gzeromedia https://t.co/mMTSsPLr16
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) March 21, 2021
10 breakthrough technologies of 2021: Messenger RNA vaccines, GPT-3, TikTok recommendation algorithms, Lithium-metal batteries, Data trusts, Green hydrogen, Digital contact tracing, Hyper-accurate positioning, Remote everything, and Multi-skilled AI
Is it farewell to the handshake?
Ultimately, when this is all over, we will have to make a bargain between the handshake’s emotional benefits of contact and its accompanying risk of contagion.
Challenging all my #econdev peeps to spend a minute thinking about affordable housing. Take that avg wage your prospect commits, call a realtor and see what kind of housing that will buy someone in your community.
— Sara J Dunnigan (@SaraJDunnigan) March 22, 2021
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