Time changes every things, sometimes very slowly, others quickly.
It can happen that we feel a change only when it finally becomes complete, even if it took years to evolve.
When things change very quickly and in an abrupt manner, we call it a revolution or a catastrophe.
In the 1960s, the French mathematician René Thome defined the basics of Catastrophe Theory. Following his studies, we can define a catastrophe as a sudden, evident and important change in a system, caused by a small variation in one of the variables that control its evolution.
With the Coronavirus outbreaks spreading all over the world, I think we can say we are living a catastrophe or, if you want, a revolution: a very marked change of our lives and in the human ecosystems as we know them.
When this pandemic will be finished (hoping it will be as soon as possible) many of us are in the hope that things will come back to be as they were before.
In my opinion, this is not possible.
In the past decades, we assisted to many changes in our life, our ways of living and thinking, all principally caused by the technological progress. We felt these changes in a sort of smooth feeling. Smartphones and social media, for example, were not so popular and diffused at the beginning of this century. However, they have changed our life in a very deep way, but apparently these changes were not so sudden: they were smooth changings for the crowd, catastrophes for small groups (think for example to the camera and videocamera factories that had to close or to convert to digital).
BTC, Blockchain, and cryptocurrencies in general, are another example, as they are changing for years economic ecosystems, but in a way that is not so abrubt as the mainstream is not affected by them until now.
These are only some examples of changes that are not so sudden and huge as it is (and it will be) will this global emergency we are living, caused by a small living being that the virus is.
Many things are changing in a very quick manner. Times are changing, now.
The question I would like to have an answer is: what really will be changed and what will be not, after?
