Tech's Economic Impact Amid COVID: Interview with Bhaskar Chakravorti

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Tech’s Economic Impact Amid COVID: Interview with Bhaskar Chakravorti

Bhaskar Chakravorti says our reliance on tech in the pandemic “fast-forwarded” everyday life into the future, even though our lives were put on pause.

March 16, 2021

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Bhaskar Chakravorti says our reliance on tech in the pandemic actually “fast-forwarded” everyday life.

Our reliance on technology and digital capabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic helped “fast forward” everyday life into the future, according to Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School and Director of Digital Planet. Chakravorti is interviewed by Madison Mills for Bloomberg Quicktake:

“We saw that in the first 3 months of the global lockdown, our engagement with the digital economy accelerated by 5 years.”@TuftsUniversity's Bhaskar Chakravorti says our reliance on tech in the pandemic actually “fast-forwarded” everyday life.

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— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) March 16, 2021

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Tech’s Economic Impact Amid COVID: Interview with Bhaskar Chakravorti