Viewsroom: Predictions and prescriptions (Part 2)
Viewsroom
Reuters
4.4 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:40.3 | That was a rough one. But with vaccines on the way and the U.S. election out of the way, |
| 0:45.3 | the world can look forward to an easier 2021. Or can it. Every year around this time, our columnists put their heads together and try to come up with predictions for what the year ahead might bring. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm Pete Sweeney. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm here in Hong Kong with columnist Robin Mock and Jen Hughes. |
| 1:00.4 | In this week's episode of Viewsroom, we are going to discuss what the future of the world looks like from Asia. |
| 1:08.0 | Robin, you're our tech columnist. |
| 1:09.4 | I want to start with you. |
| 1:10.1 | The outbreak has had ramifications for a lot of industries, but one of the industries that has been most famously a beneficiary of work from home and this surge into video streaming and e-commerce and everything has been technology. And Asia, in Asia, a lot of companies have been positioned to exploit this quite well. |
| 1:29.6 | There's been tons of movement in the space and investment. Can you just start off by kind of |
| 1:33.9 | letting us know what your take is on how this is going to play out going forward? Yeah, sure, Pete. |
| 1:39.6 | So like you said, tech has been, you know, one of the key beneficiaries of the pandemic with everyone |
| 1:46.2 | just sort of stuck at home. So we're seeing, you know, in countries like China, where internet |
| 1:51.2 | penetration is already high, e-commerce and video games, you know, that has, the pandemic has really |
| 1:57.2 | helped growth in those sectors. But in less developed markets like Southeast Asia, for example, the impact of the pandemic |
| 2:05.7 | looks actually is even more pronounced. |
| 2:08.6 | So we see a lot of trends that are just, you know, happening really, really quickly now in |
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