Are We There Already?

What to Expect in 2021

Remember that transatlantic flight where you slept for a bit and woke up hoping you were landing already just to realize that there was still 4 hours till the plane reached New York? This is what it feels like in this second, going third, wave of the sanitary crisis. You want to step out, feel the cold wind of a January day in Manhattan.

But you can’t. You have to decide how you are going to spend the next hours. Read? Watch a movie or two? Work on your laptop? Or go back to the arms of Morpheus?

Waiting at the arrivals gate at Heathrow airport a memory of a distant past, we are all eager for January 20. After this week’s mob attacks on the Capitol we are more than ever looking forward to a change, to a semblance of respect to American democracy.

Here at The UN Brief we have been huddled up, at home, plotting the year ahead.

What can you expect? More reporting on issues of social justice, data governance (a social justice issue as well), emerging technologies (ditto) and their …