Feb 24, 2020
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Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning. We discussed the Coronavirus, Covid-19 and its spread and how Technology is helping and hurting. Here we go with Jack.
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Craig
So there we go this morning with Jack Heath Craig Peterson here,
and let's get into it. We talked quite a bit about some different
aspects of what's happening with technology and the Coronavirus,
the Covid-19.
Jack
Joining us on the Autofair listener lines, our regular contributor
Craig Peterson. Craig, I want to take a few moments, we just had
Nick Bayless and talking about this Coronavirus concerns
economically. Nearly 80,000 confirmed cases, and even if we need to
keep perspective on this and not get paranoid, but is technology
going to save the day here or not?
Craig
Well, there are two sides to this tech's getting influenced by it.
We see at right now Apple and Amsterdam. I shouldn't say both are
looking at a real downturn, Orders coming ahead. Samsung is even
found at least one infected employee on their manufacturing floors
in South Korea and has shut down all manufacturing operations.
Apple says that iPhone that we were looking for in September that
inexpensive iPhone is probably not going to be able to meet those
dates. Yet technology is undoubtedly being used to track it, but
it's also being used against us now. We have warnings out there
about some of the text messages, emails, etc., that we're getting,
saying, hey, download this tracker, go to this website. Click on
this to find out about Coronaviruses in the area right now. Those
are the negatives. On the positive side, there are trackers used by
professionals that are collecting and correlating all of these
symptoms. We actually have a couple of companies now using
artificial intelligence. To watch the spread, to try and figure out
what's going on there. We've already got technology that has looked
at the virus and DNA has mapped it, and is changing the whole world
of vaccines, instead of the vaccines, taking years sometimes to
develop, we're talking about months away before we have a viable
vaccine. Then it'll need testing, etc. Technology is doing to help
this as well as causing problems. Society now versus the Spanish
flu in 1918, we're very mobile, we have people taking this virus
everywhere around the world. It's a two-edged sword here, Jack.
Jack
Well, what about vaccinations, and can technology? You know, Ken,
because Nick Bayliss, our healthcare expert earlier, was saying
there's more than one sort of strain of this grow virus can cause
vaccines with more tech knowledge today get done faster and out
faster, yes or no?
Craig
Oh, it's a lot faster. It's easily ten times faster than it used to
be. Plus, we're able to do now is we're able to use some of this
artificial intelligence to check millions of potential solutions,
you know, cures in some cases. But in the case of most viruses,
we're talking about having a vaccine, and we're able to test
millions of them a day virtually. So it is going to be dramatic. I
don't think we're going to see some of the horrific numbers that
people have talked about deaths worldwide, but we do have to be
careful. It is going to hurt the economy. Technology has seen some
of the problems already. A lack of manufacturing, initially, but
ultimately, potentially even the consumer side of things. Yeah, but
you Look at the car parts and the accessory market for automobiles.
Many, many brands and manufacturers move on China when you look at
South Korea and the numbers of people not going to factories and
working and staying home because the case looks at Italy, you can
see the contagion. I think you're right on the fatalities. But we
are now at 80,000. And we could see hundreds of thousands of cases
globally for this thing is contained or at least a couple hundred
thousand I would think and Nick Phil concurred with that. So it's
certainly going to spread the question Will you know where and I
guess the pockets that are worse than others? Well, here's
something for New Hampshire businesses and businesses worldwide.
And that is most jobs, obviously not manufacturing, but most
regular jobs we can do from home. And there is already a whole
movement afoot. for employees to work at home to stay at home.
You've got to be very careful about the security side because These
computers at home are not part of a secured network that there
might exist in the office if you will. But I think that the
technology side of things could help stop the spread. Have your
employees work from home as they can. And the latest version just
came out last week and other studies showing that people working
from home are more productive in most cases than they are in the
office.
Jack
Yeah, you're not going to get this as a water cooler, even a story.
I mean, even a study out of Harvard Business School was remarking
on that that, you know, three days of work with companies on people
to work at home is showing more productivity once you start seeing
the top line going up. You'll see that happening more curves are
commuting people, don't you people live in Atlanta, DC, terrible
commuting areas. Boston, Massachusetts, is a terrible commuting
area. I don't know why I didn't want to work there. No, I'm
kidding. I like to have fun in Massachusetts and Maine's expense.
But anyway, you'll see that that work at home thing for a lot of
reasons makes more sense. All right, Craig Peterson from tech talk,
I appreciate it, Craig. Thanks, Jack.
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