A REVOLUTION THAT WILL HAVE
IMPLICATIONS FOR ALL OF OUR LIVESIt won’t exactly be news to many of our readers
that the coronavirus crisis has truly upended
our world – and in the process, threatened
to bring about not only signiicant changes
in many areas, but outright revolution.
One of those areas is our relationship with
technology, as anyone who has attended work
meetings or yoga classes via Zoom since the
onset of the pandemic can attest. But has the
COVID-19 era been a story of dramatic digital
transformation for all of us, or just some of us?
And what’s next?
Certainly, if your experience of the pandemic
has largely been one of being conined at
home hammering away at a laptop many
miles from your employer’s brick-and-mortar
oice, you could be forgiven for thinking
this has been the situation for everyone.
And that impression has been backed up
by pronouncements from some of the most
recognizable names in consumer tech.
“FIVE YEARS’ WORTH
OF PROGRESS IN ONE”
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, for instance,
declared as early as April last year that the
crisis had helped bring about “two years’ worth
of digital transformation in two months.” His
assessment a year on, as it was revealed that
coronavirus-fuelled growth had brought the
corporation to a valuation of almost $2 trillion,
was scarcely any less bullish: “Over a year into
the pandemic, digital adoption curves aren’t
slowing down. They’re accelerating.”