Duncan Bell is going viral
Tech has not really been all that helpful during the Covid epidemic that made 2020 so ‘memorable’, has it? The UK splashed £40bn on a track and trace system based, at least in part, on ‘tracking’ our phones so we could be ‘traced’ later. Alas, somewhere along the line, a few little things went awry.
Nobody realised that if you have a tracking app with a switch that lets you turn contract tracing, a lot of people will turn it off. It also didn’t seem to occur to anyone that a tracing system based on calling people up on their mobiles, from an unknown number, would lead to most people not bothering to answer the phone.
