ABSTRACT
COVID-19 has demonstrated the importance of digital readiness, which allows business and people’s life to continue as usual during pandemics. COVID-19 pandemic is the ultimate catalyst for digital transformation and will greatly accelerate several major trends that were already well underway before the pandemic. AI tools analyze large amounts of data to learn underlying patterns, enabling computer systems to make decisions, predict human behavior, and recognize images and human speech, among many other things. In post-COVID-19 world, cloud technology is likely to receive a surge in implementation across all types of apps. 5G is acknowledged as the future of communication and the cutting edge for the entire mobile industry. Deployment of 5G networks will emerge between 2020 and 2030, making possible zero-distance connectivity between people and connected machines. Internet of Things also fuels edge computing; thus, data storage and computation become closer to the points of action, enabling saves in bandwidth and low latency.
