Will face masks be the next big thing?
Market research and human psychology predict if you should invest in this season’s hottest piece of PPE I know what you’re thinking. “Should I invest in the hottest new AI-powered face mask startup from San Diego?” Personally, I’m...
Transforming IT for the COVID-19 Disrupted Business Context
The ongoing COVID-19 crisis is desperately disrupting industries, CIOs are starting to anticipate not only the impacts on IT but also the changes to carry out. How to reorganize IT staff? How to optimize...
Voice is Creating the New Normal
How big will voice-based interfaces become in 2020, and how will we use voice differently? This question is on the minds of behavioralists, technologists, and businesses everywhere as we all adapt to / create...
Coronavirus and the forecast of change
Thousands of people are dying, and millions of people have lost jobs. However, there are reasons to believe that the COVID19 epidemic will fade away over the next six months. There are many tactics...
TDS diagnosis: Can’t you see — the elephant trampling in the piano is actually...
:( Stupid me, I was thinking of Conspiracy and Fake News From reading the comments to Julio Vincent Gambuto’s excellent article Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting, I was struck by this comment which was very very to the point: “An excellent...
Silver Lining: The World that the Disruption Created
In the famous book by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson “Why Nations Fail” about creation of inclusive or extractive institutions in different countries, there is a section dedicated to the Black Death, or...
How to protect your small business during the corona virus outbreak
It is undeniable that the effects of the coronavirus outbreak are becoming worse for humankind. But the pandemic causes considerable damage to our economy too. The people will experience the effect gradually, and the...
Why We Must Use Tech For Good, Now More Than Ever
COVID-19 has materially changed the way the world works. For the time being at least. The impact of the virus has been felt across the world, with many countries enforcing stringent lockdowns to help ‘flatten...
We Are All in a Boat, But Not in the Same Boat
What can we learn from the crisis , and how can we come stronger out of the corona crisis? "We are all in the same boat now." - Yes, that is partly true: We are in a boat, or on a ship. We...
Could Machine Learning and NLP Have Predicted Oil’s Crash? The Answer is YES.
A guide on how to combine Machine Learning and NLP to successfully predict the COVID-19 lead oil crash. On April 20th, 2020, futures for WTI (Crude oil’s U.S. benchmark) reached for the first time in history negative...
The Future of COVID Testing
Pitfalls and opportunities We are all appalled by the feeble US response to the need for COVID testing. This failure was due to misaligned incentives. With no path to monetize infectious disease testing, we did...
Social Aspects of a Plague (Corona Virus)
When we speak about the virus plague, we usually focus on the practical points of: how to stop it, how to protect yourself from it, etc. I would like to add another aspect to...
Utilizing Computing In The Fight Against SARS-CoV2
“The world is facing a public health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We all need to take this on.” - The ELLIS Society All the scholars, researchers, scientists, and organizations around the...
Coronavirus crisis czars: Politicians Versus the neo-aristocrats
Only four-month into the first reported Coronavirus case in Wuhan china, Microsoft cofounder and alleged philanthropist, Bill Gates, is contemplating to launch human-implantable capsules encompassing digital certificates. The implantable nanotechnology device also referred to...
Defining ‘Life’ in the Time of COVID-19
My wife and I are approaching a month of self-imposed isolation to avoid getting the coronavirus. We are both over 70 years old and have pre-existing conditions that make our fending off this disease...
Neither the Globalists nor the Populists Can Monopolize the COVID-19 Story
If the Financial Crisis of 2008 stirred doubt in the global economic system, COVID-19 exposed its fragility. Yet, it has also shown the drawbacks of populism and the need for a multilateral approach in...
What Happens Next?
“What happens next? You know, once all of this is over?” my friend asked. “There will be a new normal, but what will it look like?” This is the question everyone is asking. Lots of people...
The greatest financial lesson from the current pandemic
The lockdown due to the current health crisis has impacted everyone mentally, physically and financially. However, the financial impact from the lockdown will affect individuals and businesses unequally. While some companies and people focus...
COVID-19 crisis: From Neo-populist Rhetoric to Globalist instrument
The coronavirus pandemic is the epitome of a natural disaster. Indisputably, unlike many other expected adversities, the COVID-19 crisis could have been prevented, or at the very least, watered down to be situated less damaging...
Three Amazing Ways Technology Can Diagnose Coronavirus
The Coronavirus Virus or Virion as biologists know it is only about 200 nanometers in diameter and it is spreading across the globe like wildfire. But how will you know when you get the Coronavirus...