IN 2017, Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg published a manifesto about the future, where he argued that connecting everyone to the internet is necessary for building an informed community.... Still, many people around the globe either don’t have access to it or access is uneven, slow and cumbersome.... For example, a new initiative called LOON comes with the innovative idea of expanding internet access through stratospheric balloons....

Probably, in the post-COVID era, we will all advance (some faster and some more slowly) to the hygiene standards that have been used in Japan for a very long time. Such a development is likely to be one of the most important and positive results of our fight against the pandemics, writes DjoomartOt