# Professor Arun Sundararajan's recent comments exploring how a crisis can serve as an accelerant for change are featured

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Excerpt from [Republic World](https://www.republicworld.com/technology-news/other-tech-news/the-human-digital-interface-in-post-corona-days.html) -- "Will Covid-19 result in the acceleration of automation and will automation become part of our daily life? While presenting his research on how digital technologies transform society [Arun Sundararajan](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a professor at NYU Stern School of business had said "Crisis can be sort of a catalyst or can speed up changes that are on the way it almost can serve as an accelerant."

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