The DeanBeat: My holiday tech gift guide for the pandemic

During the pandemic, we could all use some upgrades in our lives. Earlier this week, I recommended some gaming products that I’ve enjoyed during the lockdown. And now I’ve got some suggestions for tech that I’ve used to stay sane during a very difficult time.

I love to write about technology in the service of people. Consumer markets drive the whole of technology forward these days, just as space technology drove the chip industry forward in the early 1960s. We can only get these advances as the volumes associated with games or other consumer tech devices lower costs, drive manufacturing efficiencies, and propel technology forward. It preserves the notion of technological progress at a time when some fundamental technologies, such as Moore’s Law driving chips forward, has slowed down.