Coronavirus Pours Gas on the Tech Revolution
A lower school substitute teacher works from her home due to the Coronavirus outbreak in Arlington, Virginia.
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Society is seemingly trapped in amber—frozen in place by the coronavirus. But really we’re speeding ever faster toward a technological future. Changes that would have occurred over the course of years are happening in weeks. The global pandemic is an accelerant, thrown on the flames of progress and calling to mind the famous Lenin quote: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”