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The Power of Information

Internet traffic has exploded during the Covid-19 outbreak. Millions of people around the world are working from home, studying in virtual classrooms, video calling with relatives and binge-watching on Netflix, all of which has put increasing strain on the virtual plumbing that keeps our data flowing.

Except that it isn’t “virtual”, of course. The internet works by magic as far as most of us are concerned, but it’s really a huge computer network that isn’t even slightly virtual. The wireless router sitting behind

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