More on Niall Ferguson’s Doom
An excerpt from page 313:
“Another policy failure has gone largely unremarked. In Asia, as we have seen, the countries that have dealt most successfully with Covid-19 made use of smartphone technology to operate sophisticated systems of contract tracking.”
Smart phones interest me. I own one and subscribe to the service but hardly ever use it. Mainly a flip-phone now. As you get older, tech gets more difficult to deal with. When diagnosed with severe cancer, a reporter asked Christopher Hitchens how it felt to know he was dying, He replied, “We are all dying.”