Expect to observe new leadership to step up with a commitment to move forward. New business models inside and outside of agriculture, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship, may become reenergized, if they are not stifled by huge mega-corporations. Questions concerning consolidation, concentration and government encroachment versus small business will be driven by consumers, society and political forces.

The possibility of less concentration of production and processing in a business that is optimizing efficiency using just in time management will be weighed against diversification, alternatives, and resiliency. This will result in more energy being used for innovation and “outside of the box thinking.”

More people will work remotely. Education will become blended with a balance between high-tech, online instruction and high touch, face-to-face meetings. This will impact all institutions from pre-K, grade school and postgraduate to adult education.

Urbanization of society and globally has been the focus since the turn-of-the-century. This may shift toward more open space and a Renaissance in some of the rural areas, particularly if reliable and affordable internet service is available.

Individual and personal health monitoring systems will become the new norm. Food, fiber and fuel, the basics for life, will adapt and change to align with proactive and progressive health schematics.

Big data, but more importantly artificial intelligence, will become accelerated in this next decade. Artificial intelligence (AI) versus privacy balances will be a vision and goal of many successful businesses, companies and institutions.