There are trends that I see in the tech world which obviously affect the very essence of everyone's day-to-day life. The pandemic has been harsh enough already, the physical, mental and emotional health toll cannot be fathomed. However, it is evident from history that come crisis; there have been significant changes in the way humanity behaves, recent changes are something that worry me though. It is said that post the last pandemic; the workers' lives changed for better as their wages were increased because there were unfortunately so few people left to work with. It is assumed that humanity does itself a favor by upping its quality of life post a drastic and sad event such as the pandemic However, I'd beg to differ in the case of the Coronavirus Pandemic; and that is because of digitization ; YES that's correct, this is coming as a person who'd only be excited to know about increased digital penetration in all things we do. One must ask him/herself, just how mu...
Your loss is our gain, China. The Chinese government just started a massive crackdown on its own Ed-tech industry. The existing Ed-tech firms have been subjected to a lot of financial pain by the move and the upcoming ed-tech startups have been told they can never go public, be for-profit or basically make any money off of it. Now, why'd China try to crack down one of its most up and coming and already massively valued industries (somewhere around 100 Billion $), the answer is a bit tricky. What you may be looking at is the annual exam "gaokao" which is used to get into prestigious undergraduate colleges, not very different from the JEE or NEET. It is a matter of immense prestige for you to have cracked the gaokao amongst so much of competition and parents (of course) take immense pride in it. At the center of all this controversy stands gaokao. What the government claims is the reason why they "had to" pull this move is exploitation. Yes, exploitation. The Ch...