While online services go into meltdown, let’s appreciate the local
OF THE MANY lessons Covid-19 has already delivered, the one that strikes home for me is just how much I’ve taken for granted my entire life. The effect of the virus echoes throughout this magazine. We had the idea for the “Can tech survive without China?” investigation (see p36) soon after the first cases of coronavirus emerged from Wuhan, the heartland of China’s electrical production. Having gone through weeks and months of denial, the Chinese government shut everything down. The result: a sudden halt in production of the technology we love to buy. As you’ll discover when you read the feature, China now effectively owns the production cycle from start to end and we’re almost totally dependent on one nation. And then, almost while we weren’t looking, Europe became the epicentre of…