'The Covid-19 pandemic forced Americans to collectively swap the physical for the digital world in a matter of months. Much of what started out as a temporary expedient is likely to become permanent.' https://t.co/sBqpVdf2yR

— Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) December 27, 2020

Hey ⁦@profgalloway⁩ what we said months and months ago: How a Covid-19 ‘time machine’ forced businesses to make a decade’s worth of changes in a matter of months. https://t.co/Fgr3WCZIEq

— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) December 26, 2020

Chart from @greg_ip’s latest; US air freight and mail revenue miles versus passenger revenue miles, year-on-year https://t.co/Id3uim0OjC pic.twitter.com/7AOnudW4ml

— Nat Bullard (@NatBullard) December 26, 2020

Fantastic piece by @greg_ip on the pandemic as a time machine that has accelerated the dematerialization of the economy -- https://t.co/L6HLFbYZgi pic.twitter.com/bLUHg7xvdz

— Cardiff Garcia (@CardiffGarcia) December 27, 2020

In my article on digital transformation today https://t.co/KtoK0bwxW9 I reprise a theme that then Fed chairman Alan Greenspan was exploring back in 1999, described then by @davidmwessel: https://t.co/zjV8n4xH3R

— Greg Ip (@greg_ip) December 26, 2020

The pandemic radically accelerated perhaps the biggest underlying trend in our economy: its dematerialization.

? media went completely digital
? stores became fulfillment centers
? the end of the office

great stuff from @greg_iphttps://t.co/N8OZNOoo3v pic.twitter.com/Ubh0VayE8e

— Christopher Mims (@mims) December 26, 2020

“retail stores are designed around customers who may browse ... fulfillment centers are designed around employees handling items nonstop. They thus use labor and space more efficiently. Amazon’s sales per employee are 50% higher than Walmart’s.” @greg_iphttps://t.co/pFgptt7EKo

— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) December 27, 2020

This by @greg_ip is fascinating throughout. “How a Covid-19 ‘time machine’ forced businesses to make a decade’s worth of changes in a matter of months.” https://t.co/LEgYCVf72k

— Daniel Akst (@danakst) December 27, 2020

Covid-19 Propelled Businesses Into the Future. Ready or Not. https://t.co/ssqdg9bZHJ

— Kaushik (@skaushi) December 26, 2020

Covid-19 Propelled Businesses Into the Future. Ready or Not. https://t.co/XWSaAwXt1b via @instapaper

— Gerd Leonhard (@gleonhard) December 27, 2020

“Covid has acted like a time machine: it brought 2030 to 2020,” said Loren Padelford, vice president at Shopify Inc. “All those trends, where organizations thought they had more time, got rapidly accelerated”

Covid-19 Propelled Businesses Into the Futurehttps://t.co/vt6U6YgL45

— Gerd Leonhard (@gleonhard) December 27, 2020

“Through Shopify, a business can quickly set up a web site with many of the same func­tions as Ama­zon with­out hav­ing to sell through Ama­zon. Its mer­chant count has nearly dou­bled in less than two years” https://t.co/VZ3UNVPesv

— Miles Kimball (@mileskimball) December 27, 2020

2021 is going to be a very good year for information technology businesses. Especially if you are providing online B2B services. Feeling like I picked the perfect year to launch @cloud22com https://t.co/fsQqvb9Ez2

— Joe Hall ? (@joehall) December 27, 2020