“In terms of crisis, people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.” — Albert Einstein, The World As I See It 

The management of COVID-19 will dominate public policymaking for the foreseeable future. 

Beyond COVID-19, there is however a major political realignment coming to Australian politics. 

Political realignment will not be driven by future pandemic concerns, climate change politics nor our relationship with China. 

The driver of this realignment will be technology and there will be two factors behind the realignment. 

These factors will be the economic impact of technology and the increasing existential ramifications of technology.  

These simultaneous economic and existential challenges are on a scale...