Despite the COVID-19 virus technology marches on relentlessly. There have been major breakthroughs and new gadgets to massive expansions in all areas of technology. Here are a few. Let's start furthest out. The Voyager space vehicles have left the building. Interstellar reporting is a thing and the news is the density of interstellar space is not a vacuum but has a measurable density of electrons and other particles. Moving closer to home Pluto is a bi-rock system. It has a buddy where the two of them circle a point between them so Pluto swings. NASA data from Pluto is worth spending time scanning their site for the facts. Coming into focus on our planet are meteors and meteorites that are booming and banging around in the atmosphere! Let's hope they stay small enough not to disturb our streaming TV shows.

Right here at home, Apple changed the course of computing with its highly integrated Apple-Silicon chips. Intel in the meantime has been working on chips where the internal interconnect is optical! Next year is lining up to be crazy exciting. Save your bitcoins. You'll be buying a lot of new gear next year.

What about 5G? New phones, new content, more Big Brother surveillance being rolled-out right now. Better AI Deep Learning algorithms coming out daily. I would start making friends with robots. They will soon be the Gatekeepers.

For me, I'm glued to the tube taking online web-dev courses. The art and engineering of the Framework Wars are endless. React is the front runner Frontend UI king and Node.js is lining up to be the Backend King. Svelte is getting a grip and raising eyebrows. Webpack and Babel are baselines now. Cloud computing and storage are solid but private servers are also getting stronger. The new Starlink Internet is up and running and is working. Whether the world will allow Elon Musk to put 42,000 little bright dots in every telescope photo taken in the future is up for debate, you have to admit highspeed Internet anywhere on earth is a great sell. You want to look at stars, go set you telescope on the moon. Really. That's come soon too.

If you're stuck in a location, whether the old part of town or the top of a mesa in a desert somewhere, full-speed, 24/7 Internet connectivity sounds great to me. I live in a 45-year-old area that doesn't plan to have fiber connectivity in a 20MB aggregated DSL nightmare. As soon as Starlink comes over the horizon, I plan to hookup. Its uplink speed already is at 10MB. That's plenty for my private server to get my websites out to the world. Keep on coding!