Perfect Alignment

It's remarkable how fast science can happen when everyone is focused on the same problem.  This devastating pandemic, with all its worldwide chaos and horror, has at the same time created a perfect alignment of technology, science, need, and opportunity.  The global impact of Covid-19 could change science forever.

-- Jane Metcalfe, co-founder and former president of Wired Ventures, creator and original publisher of the magazine Wired, Covid-19 Is Accelerating Human Transformation -- Let's Not Waste It, Wired (5 July 2020)