Governments and organizations all over the world are already collating a huge amount of data relate to the Covid-19 disease, it’s spread and mapping of victims and using AI tools to see how best to mitigate the problems and use predictive analysis in a bid to halt its growth. Chatbots were trained with the details of the disease to answer the basic questions of the troubled populace. This is already being called a Black Swan event which may be crucial in understanding a global pandemic and its learnings may be applied to other areas. This is a dynamic model being dealt with in real-time. Facial recognition is already widespread and in future everyone may start using tools to screen air passengers and citizens in public who show signs of fever and other characteristics that suggest that they are sick. Drones could also be used for video surveillance. The list is endless.
But if all goes well, then we will fully recover from the Coronavirus Covid-19 global epidemic, with minimum casualties. In the short run we will enter an economic recession. However in the long run, you can be sure that a lot of innovation will come out of the crisis and the world may totally change and take a tech trajectory for the better. Work From Home has been supersized in 2020. We will find that many jobs could have been WFHed in the first place and there will be a certain amount of optimization in the way it’s all done. Collaboration tools will proliferate and prosper.People are indeed using them to the max, with Zoom being one of them.
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