About the book: 2020 / Mikhail Zygar, journalist, writer, author of the books "All the Kremlin's Army" and "The Empire Must Die" TV presenter Sofiko Shevardnadze collected in one a book of thoughts from great contemporaries about how the coronavirus and its consequences have affected our lives. This is a conversation about living through the crisis, about what stages we are going through in the “Third World War” and what awaits us. The book will help the reader understand how the world will change and find their place in the new reality. Nassim Taleb helped Sofiko understand the consequences of the pandemic , Andrey Kurpatov, Tatyana Chernigovskaya, Ai Weiwei, Helen Fisher, Aidan Salakhova and many other Russian and international opinion leaders. Russian journalism is often focused on the past. In Russia it is not customary to talk about the future - it is difficult. Many people think that making forecasts is either naive, or provocative, or stupid, or guaranteed to be pointless. At the same time, it is in conversations about the future that new meanings are born. It is in plans for tomorrow that the image of the future is born, which we create with our own hands. Sofiko is a rare journalist who is focused on the future, who thinks about it, talks about it, worries about it. This means that the future lies with her. Yuri Saprykin, journalist, head of the “Shelf” project This book is, first of all, a lyrical diary of an ordinary person experiencing a completely extraordinary situation. In those events, hopes and fears that Sofiko writes about, it is easy for any reader to recognize ourselves: yes, we were just as worried about the health of loved ones, rushed to them through rapidly closing borders, canceled already prepared plans and made new ones, so that later cancel, looked for (and found) the most frightening symptoms, struggled with sudden sleep during the day, with insomnia at night and with anxiety at any time of the day, learned to work, make friends and fall in love on Zoom and tried to guess what awaits us next. Probably, someday, using this book, we will be able to remember what happened to us during this strange time. The only important and significant difference is that Sofiko Shevardnadze had very unusual interlocutors in this extraordinary situation: virologists and artists, economists and futurologists, Nobel laureates and authors of intellectual bestsellers. And while the author lives through these anxious months, the heroes of her interviews explain what is happening to her - and to us.