Of course, anyone would want to wake up from a really bad dream - especially one that seemed like it may never end, while successively stripping away joys and conveniences of our modern living.
The COVID-19 pandemic bestowed on us a collective nightmare experience of varying intensity, akin to a "Black Swan" event, as author and mathematical philosopher Nassim Taleb might describe-given its universal rarity and devastating effects and seeming predictability in hindsight. However, we may remember this remarkable time in our history rather as a "White Swan" event-one that catalyzed a more common occurrence of evolving Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles, a mainstreaming of sustainability-fueled by the digital innovations that designed ways to survive and thrive into a new, and more holistic, world order.
Now, as we emerge from the remnants of the pandemic-s aftermath, we find ourselves at the late dawn of a new geologic epoch-the "Anthropocene"-where t
