I was just quizzing economic trends with DW over a cup of tea, and thought I'll reel the mustachians in the discussion too.
1. Biotech:
Huge amount of new capacity + knowhow created. Expect massive new amounts of gene therapies and other things we probably can't even imagine today to pop out of it. They will be both a boon (lives saved/improved) and a bane (how do you pay for them?).
2. Education:
Distance learning is a failure. But I think people aren't very happy about paying full fare for distance learning classes either. This will pinpoint the focus on school costs.
Something will change for all but the top 20 schools. Either they will go out of business, or lower costs, or something.
Cost of education for the vast majority of the kids will likely go down over the next 5 years or so.
Negative side: This will lead to a big deflationary ripple effect on the economy (think of all the salaries currently paid to the university administrators).
3. Urbanization of the population.
Instead of Urbanization it will be suburbanization . I like it, of course - because I live in suburbia. It will be good if suburbs become higher density and accommodate more people, and bad if they just become mini-SanFrancisco's.
4. Supply chain resiliency over efficiency
There will be a much closer look at the resiliency of the supply chain(s) over and above efficiency.
This will be inflationary for the economy as a whole - which will of course be welcome in most aging societies.
It's difficult to predict anything else specific coming out of it. It can lead to very unpredictable and surprising outcomes.