After COVID-19: What Happens to These Technologies and Services Next?—Part 1

COVID-19 has impacted so many aspects of our lives and the way our businesses operate, but what does it mean for these technologies and services going forward?

With the advent of COVID-19, the world has changed. Working remotely, which once was growing but still on the fringes of mainstream work, has temporarily become the standard. Technologies like FaceTime, Skype, and Zoom, which were once comforting additions to our social lives have become central to it.

The world has shaped itself around the impediments of this pandemic. And that also means our technologies and services have and will continue to adjust themselves as a result. The changes aren’t stopping. It’s up to us to stay abreast of them so that we can be proactive in how we respond to them.

This week, we at Innovexa Solutions take a look at several popular technologies and services and how COVID-19 will influence them in the near-future.

5G: Delayed

Don’t expect to see widespread 5G any time soon. 5G was already having a slow rollout due to the difficulty of building the infrastructure needed for it as well as the expenses associated with it. As such, we wouldn’t have experienced the benefits of easily accessible 5G for quite some time even without the coming of COVID-19.

Now, with this pandemic having come and frozen our economies, 5G will be further delayed. This economic downturn will mean governments will be focusing their funds on emergency measures as opposed to 5G deployment. With that in mind, as long as COVID-19 and its corresponding economic effects are still factors in our lives, don’t bank on any 5G.

The Cloud: Mass Adoption

COVID-19 has exposed the need for companies to have business models that can run effectively with their workers doing their parts remotely. Consequently, at this very moment and certainly going forward, companies will be adopting a cloud-based strategy for functioning.

This can either be either a hybrid cloud model or a multi-cloud model. The important thing is that companies have their data and applications running on an online-accessible shared platform. By making this move, companies will be able to operate without their workforce having to be localized.

Data: Safety Over Privacy

Our concerns about our safety might be overruling our concerns about our privacy post-COVID. Big data was never going anywhere regardless. However, understandably, as more and more of our data has been collected over the years, many have raised the alarm over possible privacy violations this might be leading to.

Although these concerns are here to stay, they’re possibly going to be trumped by our worries about our safety in the face of this pandemic. As our economies slowly begin to open up again, the desire for goods and services will be as strong as ever. In order to meet this demand while responsibly handling the threat of COVID-19, our data will have to be utilized to ensure adequate social distancing.

Key Takeaways:

• Takeaway 1: 5G has already been slow in its rollout due to certain barriers like infrastructure and expenses. COVID-19 and the economic impacts its resulting in will only further delay it.
• Takeaway 2: Companies will look to the cloud now and going forward so that their operations can’t be disrupted when their workforce can’t physically go to work.
• Takeaway 3: We might be placing safety over privacy in the future as we use data to employ optimal social distancing.

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