De Futuro: le passé
*There will be two parts, the first one is past-oriented and the second one is present-condition oriented. “The future is as much about the past as it is about the future.” At some varying degree, this statement is indeed true because as we see today, history has repeated itself. It is undeniable that technology has evolved dramatically over the past 200 years (since the beginning of the industiral revolution) and yet, our psychology as human being hasn’t evolved dramatically over the past two-hundred years. In the late 1910’s, Indonesia (or the Dutch East Indies) was hit by a pandemic and it is worth mentioning that the late 1910’s pandemic causing virus caused a disease almost similliar to COVID-19. The early response of the Dutch East Indies governement to this pandemic is -as expected- not so much different to the early response of the Indonesian governement towards the was emerging COVID-19. A response marked with misscommunication, unpreparedness, and most importantly underes