Technology and Covid-19: Connecting through the crisis
Covid-19 is putting humanity and how we use technology under a microscope. If we are willing to look and learn, the crisis could offer us the opportunity to map out a brighter future through the relationship between society and technological change
Necessity, the saying goes, is the mother of invention. This is certainly true of the Covid-19 crisis. Manufacturers are changing their production lines to make respirators, distillers are turning out hand-sanitising gel, and people are finding creative ways to self-distance and isolate as they lose social access.
However, just as people can be seen at their best in a crisis, they can also be seen at their worst. Supermarkets have been turned into scenes from the zombie apocalypse, and lockdown has become the ...
