The tech industry has always prided itself - and for good reason - on describing and building products, services, and even business models that look to the future. In fact, the technologies behind many of today's advances are arguably helping define our future. Because of that, it's become quite normal to think and talk about these developments as having to unfold over the course of several years before their true impact can be accurately measured.
But the COVID-19 crisis is focusing a dramatically different lens on many of these efforts and forcing companies to think