What Will Covid-19 do to the Battery Life of Your Devices?

Stuck at home with nothing to do? You’re not alone. And while social distancing rules being enforced across the globe do allow for some walks and short ventures into the outside world, depending on your location, many of us are opting to spend much of our time in front of our various devices. With the increased use, however, we can’t help but wonder, what will happen to battery life?

One can only imagine that as our various devices get used more frequently and are charged more often, their lifespan will drastically decrease, and we’ll all be shopping for new devices as soon as the crisis is over. In the grander scheme of things, however, there’s the bigger question of what this will mean for battery life in general. Given the increased use of their devices, will consumers start demanding a longer battery lifespan for their devices? Will manufacturers be inspired to innovate the battery in ways we never even dreamed possible? Will wireless charging finally be a reality for all devices across all platforms? We’ll just have to wait and see, which is very much the case for a lot of aspects of everyday life affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. With any luck, however, despite all the difficulties, maybe some great technological innovations can come from the situation as well!

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The Technological Advances That Shaped our World

It’s no secret that technology rules much of our modern lives. How many of us would be lost without our smartphones or helpless at home without basics like electricity and running water? But before our modern luxuries, technology played a huge role in shaping our very society. Here are three of the many inventions that forever changed the world and shaped it into the one we live in today.

The printing press. Just about anything imaginable, any human endeavour you can dream of, requires some form of communication. In 1448 Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press and made mass communication a possibility for the first time. Prior to the invention of the printing press books were hand printed rarity, severely restricting the spread of ideas.

The telegraph. The 1830s and 1840s saw the development of efficient and expedient long distance communication thanks to Samuel Morse and his invention of the telegraph and Morse code. Near instantaneous communication would prove to be a game changer and the basis of all communication to come.

The internet. While the internet was definitely a collaborative effort, it’s thanks largely to the contributions of Vincent Cerf and Robert Kahn, who invented the TCP/IP protocols adopted by ARPANET in 1983, that we owe the backbone of our modern internet. Used primarily by the US government until its commercialization in the 1990s.

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