culture
coronavirus
technology
2020: The Year the Internet Age Truly Began
Israeli Knesset (2010-2013)
Angel Investor, Entrepreneur
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July 20th, 2020
"The internet has changed some things. COVID-19 will ensure it changes the rest."
I think this is exactly right. Every sector that had previously been resistant to the internet (healthcare, education, law, finance, government itself) has now flipped to remote-first.
And once you can work from a coffee shop or your home, you can work from anywhere (modulo time zone issues). A friend of mine remarked that 2020 will be seen by future historians as the year when the internet age truly began.
It used to be that the physical world was primary, and the internet was the mirror. Now that has flipped. The digital world is primary and the physical world is just the mirror. Important events happen on the internet first and then materialize in the physical world later, if ever.
We're still physical beings, of course. COVID-19 has made that very clear. But it's also emphasized for many that we've been focusing on the wrong things. Nothing against sports, fashion, or video games, but we've been overallocated on leisure and underallocated on the things that matter, like health. There's a feeling in technology that we do need to solve COVID -- we need to develop drugs, vaccines, treatments and tests -- but then we need to actually solve the underlying problem, which is aging itself.
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