admin Pandemic showed us a new way of living. In the rat race of budding businesses, companies at their best position struggled to survive among their rivals. Making a digital transition smoothly while marking the product distinctively is becoming imperative these days. As more businesses entered the online marketplace, the rivalry for traffic became even greater. Dynamos like Amazon, Walmart, and Target dived higher, whereas smaller brands faced challenges and few became game-changers.
For all developing countries, corona outbreak urged to prepare for a period of deep and speedy technological transformation that dramatically changed markets and societies to embrace the automated world. For international cooperation enhancement, countries facilitated investment in new and upcoming technologies, which turned into the seizing opportunities in digital sectors, and majorly contributed to sustainable development.
The internet has been a real boon to us during the trying times of the pandemic. A study conducted last year suggests that the number of people using the internet grew from 4.6 billion to 4.9 billion in 2021. This means more people had access to the myriad boons of the internet. While the internet and its allied tools helped open up new avenues of learning and working, AI-driven tools helped the nitty-gritty of the pandemic. From the development of a vaccine to the holistic distribution of knowledge about the ailment, precautions, and consequences, AI-driven tools changed the entire health narrative for the better.
Astounding Impact on Worldwide Education
The pandemic affected the educational trajectories of about 320 million school and university learners in India- according to a UNESCO report. The response to this crisis was developed by swiftly transitioning into the virtual mode of learning. This digitization of education has been a result of collective efforts. By leveraging the opportunities that tech tools have to offer, they changed the way we perceive education in the conventional sense of the term.
The benefit of using this virtual learning tool is not solely hidden in the fact that it can be accessed from anywhere but is rather secretly stored in the way this multimedia approach helps improve student engagement levels and boost interaction across learning bandwidths.
Talking about the future of education, it’s critical to strengthen and implement student-centered learning. Learning flexibility is the motto that oversees the future trend of providing great education to students. With the variety of choices available and skills honed, students will benefit immensely from flexible learning forms in the future.
Adoption of e-Medicine Globally
E-medicine or telemedicine has been an effective tool in covering the spread of COVID-19. The increased use of video conferencing and digital monitoring globally lessen direct contact. When it comes to treating patients during a pandemic, careful implementation of virtual care can increase healthcare access and can help us lead a healthy life.
Despite the fears, the pandemic has exposed that there is an imperative responsibility today to use technology to make healthcare accessible to anywhere and anybody. It can be designed to support at an early stage so that the diagnosis of a disease can take place earlier or help patients with chronic diseases manage their condition.
A COVID-19 pandemic is an unsettling event in our history. Even though the current pandemic outbreak has had a negative impact on the earth, it has given the challenge to our scientists, engineers, and innovators, and inspiration to create solutions to the problem. Human being survived with their innovations, creativity, and ability to create new solutions digitally.
With the technological developments, advanced manufacturing, quick prototyping, robotics, and high-tech tools and techniques, now MedTech innovators can provide much faster, more efficient, safe, and effective solutions to medical conditions in the upcoming years.
Impacting the Travel Industry
The influence of the digital world is reflected in the way our lives have become intertwined with the tech tools of modern living. According to a Pew Research survey conducted last year, by 2025, algorithms, remote working protocols, and digitized tools of interaction, work, leisure, and communication will dominate our everyday lives.
These tech tools also provide us with a glimmer of hope for the future of the travel industry. AI-driven tools, facial recognition-enabled passports, and real-time translation devices will make travel safer than what it is today. Even though the pandemic and data breach issues are yet to be diffused, there is hope in the industry recovering by instrumentalizing these tech tools.
We are standing at the cusp of the third wave of COVID-19, where the emergence of the Omicron variant has hit 77 countries as per WHO reports, which said Omicron is spreading at an unprecedented rate we have not seen with any previous variant. Though the situation is never predictable and can be demanding more advancements in the upcoming days. I’d say, we are rapidly moving towards the data-driven global network society.
About the Author
Dr. Sonal Burghate is Editor at TLG Media LLP and associate editor & publisher of IJCAMS (International journal of Commerce and Management Studies) journal. She has over a decade of experience in Technology and Training sector. Her area of interest is Technology, Commerce and Management. In her prior work experience, she was responsible for leading, managing and developing multiple departments to ensure they achieve the highest possible standards of excellence in all its activities. She has published several national and international research papers in reputed journals and attended various national and international conferences.
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