COVID Senior Lockdown, Day 13

The question on the table today is: What results of the virus crisis are going to stay with us after it’s gone? Education? Probably. Epidemiology? Sure. Work habits and location? Yeah. But the biggest, I think, is the infrastructure behind the Internet. We’re only a couple of weeks into what they say is likely a two-month-plus exercise, and already the Web is showing a shortage of bandwidth while the world is increasingly depending on it. Not sure whether the new Salvation Bill has money in it for servers and cables, but Amazon and IBM have already been duking it out for the $10 gazillion contract to put the government on the Cloud. The reaction to the virus is just accelerating that movement. This, if you know your world history, is exactly the confluence of events that will lead, or has led, to Skynet. Say a prayer for anyone you know named Sarah Connor. And stay out of her line of fire.

It’s Saturday. Take it slow. Stay safe.