New World Same Humans #2

Notes on an epidemic. In search of the Zeroth Law. What Goop Lab tells us about modern life.

9 min readFeb 3, 2020

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Illustration by Nikki Ritmeijer

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a new weekly newsletter by TrendWatching’s Global Head of Trends and Insights, David Mattin.

This week I thought about virus outbreaks, existential risk, energy exorcisms and modernity.

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