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OPLIN 4Cast #731: In a terrible year, was 2020 tech so terrible?
December 30th, 2020

[image: Dumpster on fire with 2020 on the outside] As we approach the end
of what arguably has been a terrible year, it's important to look back and
see if absolutely everything was awful, or if any progress was made despite
the events that have made 2020 a difficult year. Without question, In the
world of technology, events influenced their evolution and adoption.


   -
   - From Zoom to Quibi, the tech winners and losers of 2020
   <https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/zoom-quibi-tech-winners-losers-2020-74934169>
   [ABC News] "All video conferencing software from Microsoft Teams to WebEx
   thrived during the abrupt shift of tens of millions of people to remote
   working and schooling during pandemic. But only one became a verb."
   - High Tech Police Surveillance of Protests and Activism: Year in Review
   2020
   <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/high-tech-police-surveillance-protests-and-activism-year-review-2020>
   [Electronic Frontier Foundation] " Because San Francisco has an ordinance
   prohibiting the police from gaining access to any new surveillance
   equipment without approval from the Board of Supervisors, EFF is now
   representing activists in a lawsuit against the city for violating this
   law. This may be the nation’s first test case to enforce a municipal CCOPS

   <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/join-movement-community-control-over-police-surveillance>(community
   control of police surveillance) ordinance. "
   - 2020 was the year of the casual gamer
   <https://www.engadget.com/casual-gaming-in-2020-150021233.html>
   [Engadget] "With live sports and movie theaters shut down, lots of people
   who normally wouldn’t consider themselves 'gamers' turned to the medium for
   entertainment and solace. And the games they played weren’t always the big
   action-packed AAA titles."
   - 2020 in Review: The Gov Tech World Turned Upside Down
   <https://www.govtech.com/computing/2020-in-Review-The-Gov-Tech-World-Turned-Upside-Down.html>
   [Government Technology] "But as the spread of COVID-19 continued, tech
   experts were called upon to enable new ways of conducting court business
   with significant remote components. In September, Law.com characterized
   virtual jury trials, piloted in a few rare instances this summer, as
   “morphing from experiment to expectation.”"

*From the Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - Dust or Magic 2020 Review
   <https://search-ebscohost-com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=147230726&site=ehost-live>(Dust
   or Magic 2020 Review. *Children’s Technology Review*. 2020;28(4):3-6.)
   - 2020: Watch The Year in Review
   <https://search-ebscohost-com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=147578701&site=ehost-live>(Kluger,
   J. (2020). 2020: Watch The Year in Review. *Time.Com*)
   - The Story Of 2020 In Photos
   <https://search-ebscohost-com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bwh&AN=202012070700PR.NEWS.USPR.NY14639&site=ehost-live>
   (PR Newswire. (2020, December 7). The Story Of 2020 In Photos. *PR
   Newswire US*)

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