The “New Normal” is Abnormality

David Houle
The 2020s Decade
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3 min readJun 11, 2020

This will be the most disruptive decade in history

It’s already clear.

How has the decade been for you so far?

COVID-19 was a predicable event in that, based on the history of diseases this century, there would be a pandemic at some point. For the last decade, I’ve been saying that a global pandemic was an inevitability. The probability was overwhelming, but the specifics of the timing and of the virus itself were beyond my ability to forecast.

David Houle
The 2020s Decade

Futurist / Writer/Speaker //Author of 13 books // “CEOs Futurist”// Futurist in Residence at the Ringling College of Art + Design