In recent months, the coronavirus has captured the global agenda, giving rise to many fears and hopes. Some say that the world will never be the same and we have lost it. Others hope that the pandemic will help solve long-standing problems like environmental collapse and cooperation between countries around the world. In the book "The World Paused," political strategist Vitaly Shklyarov and journalist Andrzej Belovranin propose to reflect on what kind of information we have, what conclusions we can draw on its basis, and as a result, what the world will be like in which we will all live very soon.