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Coronavirus and the Importance of Internet Access as a Human Right
Over the past decades, technology has evolved in an unprecedented manner. We are only becoming more and more aware of the massive importance of technology in our day to day lives. We can now confidently say that we are dependent on technology, especially after what happened.
At the end of last year, a new virus developed in a Chinese province called Hubei. The situation got out of hand. It had been less than a month after the news came out into the world, and in Hubei, there was a massive lockdown; a lot of people were dying because of this virus, and a lot more were in danger. They decided to isolate the city from the rest of the world; no one gets in, no one gets out. Radical measurements that unfortunately weren’t enough to stop the spread of the Coronavirus. Only a bit less than three months since the first cases, and COVID-19 went from an epidemic to a pandemic.
The word was facing a challenge: Trying to keep society active at a time when it couldn’t interact: sounds impossible because, without interaction,
it can not function. Yet, someone wrote this article, and someone else is reading it, which is, in some way, interaction. How is this possible when there’s a situation that impeeds interaction? It is possible thanks to technology that has evolved in an unprecedented manner; it is possible thanks…
