COVID-19's Impact on Key Technologies

What will the short- and long-term impact of COVID-19 be on technology innovation? In the short term, some sectors—including online retail, last-mile delivery, cloud services, online education and training, and robotics—are doing better. The long-term implications may mean that some emerging technologies will flourish, such as private networks, edge computing, distributed intelligence and AI, AR/VR, robotics, etc.