Can you imagine AI’s promise after the coronavirus?

No generation explores the full opportunities of the technologies at their disposal. The economic gains from the increasing usage of steam engines were only realised decades later with the broad improvements and advancement of railroads. The automobile with the collective improvements to vehicle design and improved roadways. Indeed, as the author William Gibson is so often quoted as saying — the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.

So, as Covid-19 reshapes the global economic scene and humanity looks for new ways to collectively respond, technology is naturally at the forefront – but unlike past generations, the increasing penetration of the internet and a new generation of digital natives is reshaping the way in which new technologies are diffused and democratised,