By Joanna Goodman11 January 2021
Cloud technology was already transforming legal services and making courts more efficient before the pandemic hit. 2021 will present new challenges to a remote workforce
Traditionally, this is the time when people make predictions for the year ahead – but in 2021 predictions seem somewhat hollow. Nobody anticipated 2020’s global pandemic, although it has been flagged up as a possibility multiple times in recent decades. In fiction, Nigel Watts’ 1995 novel Twenty Twenty is set in 2020 during a pandemic (Watts died in 1999, so did not witness the accuracy of his dystopian vision). ‘If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war,’ said Bill Gates in his 2015 TED talk, ‘The next outbreak? We’re not ready’, which was inspired by West Africa’s Ebola virus epidemic. However, I cannot find mention of a likely pandemic in predictions for 2020.
By Joanna Goodman14 December 2020
Embracing uncertainty can build resilience into your business strategy. Firms should focus on connectivity, communication and cloud to ensure robust systems are in place
Joanna Goodman
In The Biggest Bluff, author and psychologist Maria Konnikova explores the nature of risk and uncertainty by learning to become a professional poker player. Why poker? ‘At its heart, poker is a game of incomplete information,’ she wrote in an article for The Observer, explaining that learning poker taught her to rise above the noise and embrace uncertainty and lack of control over her future as a source of power rather than fear. Put simply, it taught her resilience.