Sebastian Matthes on forced digitalization during Corona times
“The Corona crisis has triggered a kind of forced digitalization of everyday life. People are using as many digital offers from the tech giants as never before. They order food more often over the network, communicate more digitally as the growth in video conferencing shows, pay more often with the smartphone and use offers like Google Classroom or Youtube, so that their children can still get something from the teaching material.”
– Digital Colonialism, Essay by Sebastian Matthes, Handelsblatt, June 3, 2020