I regularly communicate with a very large and diverse cross-section of the broad insurance ecosystem. and almost everyone expresses the same professional anxieties and frustrations. With regard to the business of insurance, very few have a clear view of the future, and for obvious and good reasons. However, I believe that several discernible patterns are emerging out of the fog of this pandemic and together they provide a fairly well-defined view of the future of insurance, leaving only the timing uncertain.