There are far too many posts seeking to crystal gaze and all people have left us quite 'educated' concerning effects of COVID-19 and it's wake on Economy, Technology, Society... everything. I'd rather attempt to combine a few dots ...
For People who've been a Tech student or practitioner and remember the first application we wrote at Unix shell script, stating"Hello World"... it is the Corona Virus that is saying"Hello World" today, and changing the world by the minute. We've got a worldmeter that provides us the entire amount of Cases and Deaths, followed by incremental new cases and deaths that are new. The information comes with an uncanny similarity to the Olympics Medal tally... with US topping the tables as well (and they wouldn't be happy about it for sure ). Now, has there been any event monitored so closely worldwide this way before... the response is NO.
There's been a fear in the stock markets globally. The stock exchange specialists are organizing more more investor calls than ever before and describing the ‘opportunity’ to buy (with normal disclaimers). Within this procedure, Zoom's market cap had exceeded that of Uber, that has become a poster child of born-Digital companies at every seminar / conference attended last few years.
Let us concentrate on Technology today... we've always stated that Tech is changing our lives. Currently, will COVID-19 wind up altering the Tech itself forward... the answer is YES. The full world, across industries, scrambled over previous couple of weeks to change into WFH (Work From Home) style... and it wasn't as simple as merely a 'switch', by any means. While people are adjusting to this new normal, let's take a take a look at the way that COVID-19 crisis impacts workers at home and on the job.
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