The pandemic is accelerating smart city tech

Thursday, November 5, 2020

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It’s incredibly difficult to look for a silver lining in the midst of a pandemic when all you can see is the carnage it’s caused in its wake. Millions of people have lost their lives. Millions have lost their jobs. We’ve all lost any semblance of normalcy, and it looks like this will be our reality for the foreseeable future.

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