“Everything is digital now. Going digital was only a discussion point for many businesses but now it’s the only reality.”
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The pandemic is confronting people around the world with important questions about how much and what kinds of surveillance and tracking to accept in support of better health.
Apple and Google are working together to fight the coronavirus war in a smart and effective way. It may be the first step in turning the tide against the pandemic and moving society back to a more normal life.
The public debate on strategies to tackle Covid-19 often unhelpfully positions health and economic considerations in a diametric fashion – as trade-offs. The two need to be parts of a coherent whole.
The tech bubble is popping, but not in the way anyone expected. After years of fretting that free-spending start-ups with unrealistic valuations would bring down the start-up economy on its own, a global pandemic is doing it in instead.
Faced with the biggest challenge of any post-apartheid South African leader, President Cyril Ramaphosa has also been given a rare opportunity to push through the painful reforms the economy needs.
The coronavirus pandemic is a crisis of such magnitude that, aided by technology, it threatens to change the world in which we live, with ramifications for how leaders govern.
Most people by now have heard of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2, or Covid-19. But some may not be aware that Sars-CoV-2 belongs to a family of viruses. And the family is, we fear, expanding.
In the absence of evidence that has withstood public scrutiny, President Cyril Ramaphosa may have gone too far by imposing a three-week national lockdown. By Seán Mfundza Muller.
The coronavirus outbreak is causing people to rethink the handshake and seek other gestures that perform similar functions without touch.