Tag: pandemics
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This report is an interim summary of the findings and recommendations from the Ada Lovelace Institute expert deliberation, chaired by Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery. A fuller report of the deliberation… more ›
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In a short space of time, touch screen technology has gone from being a novelty to ubiquitous in commerce, healthcare, education and every other part of our daily lives. https://reuters.com/brandfeature/world-leading-japanese-non-touch-technology-helps-keep-us-safe more ›
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Many of us have spent the past nine months lusting for a normal night like that. Many of us have spent the past four years longing for a normal president.… more ›
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One of the world’s top 10 richest men is Indian, but nearly a fourth of the world’s poorest people live in India. And Covid-19 only made this paradox worse. “The pandemic has reinforced some… more ›
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The following text is a collection of notes I wrote down while exploring the process for manufacturing and distributing the two new vaccines that have appeared all over the news… more ›
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Video footage from Wuhan during the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic shows how the Chinese government could have done more to prevent the coronavirus from spreading, and its attempts… more ›
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The debut of a video game console is a carefully choreographed event. It matches state-of-the-art electronics with complex software and big-budget games. It takes years of development and billions of… more ›
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The COVID-19 crisis has focused the minds of local governments on the need to build resilience into their recovery strategies. Despite severe budget challenges globally, cities such as London and Tel Aviv, have… more ›
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Mobile guest rooms, enhanced contactless room controls, robotic servers and pop-up dining areas are just a few of the ideas hotel designers are considering for the post-Covid travel world. Whether… more ›
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At their peak during the reign of Trajan, around the start of the second century AD, the Romans had governed distant regions of the globe for longer than any other… more ›