“Out with the old, in with the new” means to leave old things or ideas behind and start fresh with new things or ideas. People usually say this at the beginning of a new year or at the beginning of something new.
This answer comes from Quora, the website where top-ranked questions are answered by a "community." The answers that come from this community range far and wide.
I am sorry to have Quora always at the top of the answer stack. It has figured out that Google is in the business of showing webpages that answer questions. Quora answers questions in whatever way its "community" feels like. So the answers can be nonsense, vicious rants, hate speech, vulgarities, unrelated ads, or factual answers. We have to figure it all out, and Quora is in business by making sure an appropriate "answer" hits the top.
I went to Marian Salzman's website HERE for her view on 2021 trends. What is the New that will be ushered in?
Let's start with the headlines of past trends:
2010: Cellphones are the new transfats 2011 The new social is antisocial 2012 Let's get reality competitive 2013 Small is the new big 2014 Massification of organics 2015 Self everything 2016 Uneasy street 2017 Sleep as a status symbol 2018 Cryptocurrency craze 2019 Reality meets virtuality 2020 Chaos the new normal
In the 2021 introduction, Salzman compares Y2K and C-19 and what the threats were/are and our responses to them. She says our Y2K fears materialized a decade later - in 2020.
She says that we are in a different world in 2020 than we were in 1999:
"More divided. More skeptical. Less willing to put aside partisan ideology in service to the greater good. Our calendars have advanced two decades, but society appears to be moving—sometimes at hyperspeed—in the opposite direction."
In her annual trends report, Marian explores 11 ideas that will influence life choices and behaviours and ultimately become the next normal.
Mostly these ideas feed into new product development, marketing products and investment strategies. That's what her company does. She always offers ideas that lead to economic advantage. However, she includes some that are societal and political - so a broader view is also given.
It is the final sentence of the report that brings attention to this broader view. What does she end with? I'll show you.
Our picture of the day is my version of out with the old of 2020. It turns out to be a visual expression of her 2020 trend "Chaos the new normal".
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