2021: Tech Innovation Boom!

Mal Fletcher Posted 31 December 2020

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“An optimist,” wrote Bill Vaughan, “stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”

Whichever of those camps you identify with, you’ll probably agree that 2020 is leaving us with few things to cheer. Dig a little deeper, though, and you may find that this year of pestilence and turbulence has set us up for a burst of innovation going forward.

Consider the arena of technology. In the 1960s, it took four years of concentrated research and development to create a vaccine against the mumps, a... Click for more

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