I think I’ll let this topic evolve a bit more and might jump in later again. I won’t have enough time to do the desk research and manual writing, but I could contribute that for a single, compact topic of interest.
On the philosophical side, I have this to say about the current crisis response in Europe:
People are so stuck in old rules, laws and regulations. Still think that there was substance and merit to them, while we only had them in times of peace as a means of liability negotiation between people. Technology can do so much more for us if we’d stop the bickering and lawsuits about tiny details – and a crisis is exactly for that. To throw the old rules out and do what is technically possible.
Illustrative example: In Germany they were running out of ethanol to produce hand sanitizer. At the same time, there are gazillions of liters of bio-ethanol used to make E10 fuel (10% ethanol, 90% petrol). But officials declined to use that 100% ethanol because “it does not adhere to purity standards for substances used in medicine”.