The 4th industrial revolution, the Great Reset and Covid-19

2010 : the year of a fake pandemic and a strangely familiar fictional scenario

John Slegers

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In 2010, the Rockefeller Foundation funded a scenario-planning exercise that envisioned how hypothetical future events could impact the development of technology. This exercise resulted in a document titled “Scenarios for the Future of Technology & International Development”.

The document envisions how the world would be impacted in four different scenarios, one of which, dubbed “Lock Step,” deals with a global pandemic. Here’s an excerpt from this document :

The pandemic […] had a deadly effect on economies: international mobility of both people and goods screeched to a halt, debilitating industries like tourism and breaking global supply chains. Even locally, normally bustling shops and office buildings sat empty for months, devoid of both employees and customers.

The pandemic blanketed the planet — though disproportionate numbers died in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America, where the virus spread like wildfire in the absence of official containment protocols. But even in developed countries, containment was a challenge. The United States’s initial policy of “strongly discouraging” citizens from flying proved deadly in its…

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John Slegers
John Slegers

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