Second order effects are things that happen as unexpected outcomes of something else happening.

Emerson Spartz is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on virality and the internet. In the past weeks, Emerson started an open crowdsourced document on the Coronavirus’ second order effects that has, itself, gone viral/

Emerson brings a surprisingly optimistic perspective on where this could lead a generation of people who are now more fully plugged in to the internet than ever before.