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Living with Technology: Technology during the Pandemic By Nipuna Fonseka Source:Dæhæna – Monthly e-Newsletter We are living in a unique moment in history. The year 2020 will forever be remembered for the way it changed the way we live with technology. The masses have followed and adopted Zoom Meetings, Conference Calls, Collaborative Creation Tools, Messaging Apps and a flurry of productivity tools previously relegated to the “Try It Later” box. The mother of all innovations is necessity. We need technology to survive, track, analyse, diagnose and report this unprecedented pandemic & the equally influential “Black Lives Matter” movement sweeping the world. All the social media platforms have provided a form of release, camaraderie and mental therapy that no one could have expected. Governments turned to technology to contact trace the pandemic as it became quickly evident that traditional forms of tracking were just not going to be enough to control the ...