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Column: Future Directions

Post COVID-19 Thoughts:
Controversies and Merits
of the Technology
Progress
Gordana S. Veliki
c, Branislav M. Todorovi
c,
and Dragan Kukolj
RT-RK Institute

& WITHIN A CENTURY, we are witnessing acceleration in the technology development in such
steps that just the changes in the last couple of
decades made a difference in our lives. What was
a "Science fiction" technology to the previous
century generations, has become a common commodity for the 21st century generations. And for
many born in the 20th century, these changes are
big. According to the universal laws that are in
physics known in a form of "each action creates
the reaction," it is intuitively known that these
changes are not to be accepted without the
advent of some major concerns.
Why is technology so important? Technology
brings a global promise of prosperity to all. Very
often, it is a synonym for advancement and progress. And progress it brings! Our life landscape
has changed in many sectors. Definitions of
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services, technological literacy, or quality of life
are transformed to include available consumer
technology. This is further visible in changes of
job markets, business models, and official education curriculums. The questions at hand are what
influenced the big changes, and are the scales of
changes overrated--just because we did not pay
due attention to details--such as the progress of
multidisciplinary research, or "hungriness" of consumer market? Even if "hungriness" is artificially
introduced in a race for profit.
Pandemic COVID-19 restrictions showed that
technology adoption is inevitable.1 From online
classes and education, videoconferencing with
friends, family, and business partners, to social
networks--it seemed that connections grow stronger than ever, and that technology is accepted well
and with gratitude. Or it just seemed? Some may
say that technology transformed the physical contacts into virtual, although the technology is just a
tool for implementation of the expert-based measures. This also exposed the vulnerability of

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