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The Simpsons started its 32nd season this past fall. Homer is still the family’s breadwinner. Although he’s had many jobs throughout the show’s run—he was even briefly a roadie for the Rolling Stones—he’s back at the power plant. Marge is still a stay-at-home parent, taking point on raising Bart, Lisa, and Maggie and maintaining the family’s suburban home. But their life no longer resembles reality for many American middle-class families.
Homer, a high-school graduate whose union job at the nuclear-power plant required little technical skill, supported a family of five. A home, a car, food, regular doctor’s appointments, and enough left over for plenty of beer at the local bar were all attainable on a single working-class salary. Bart might have had to find $1,000 for the family to go to England, but he didn’t have to worry that his parents would lose their home.
Start looking into remote virtual interpreting
There are many services based on virtual technologies that your business can definitely benefit from. As long as you know what problems need to be dealt with and what your needs are, you will probably be able to determine the exact type of service you should be looking for.
For instance, you might want to start looking into remote virtual interpreting. Numerous companies that specialize in that particular branch of translation have a team of seasoned interpreters as well as remote meeting managers and technicians at their disposal.
The hottest technology of 2021
The events of 2020 showed that making accurate predictions can be nearly impossible. But they also left us with a flurry of unanswered questions about our collective futures: What direction will the tech industry take in the year ahead? What will the recovery look like?
GeekWire surveyed CEOs, tech execs, investors, professors, AI experts, and others from a range of industries and organizations. Artificial intelligence, and specifically natural language processing, won multiple nods as the hottest technology of 2021. But virtual health, mRNA, gene editing, and video conferencing also received mentions.
Brexit, translators, and interpreters
A December 24, 2020 trade and cooperation agreement between the EU and the UK confirms that UK translators and interpreters are among the limited number of professionals who will be permitted to work in EU countries without work visas during short business trips.
Samuel Lowe, a London-based Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Reform, tweeted on December 26, 2020, that translation and interpretation is one of 11 activities that “short-term business visitors are permitted to engage in.”
Meanwhile, translator Kim Sanderson, in a December 28, 2020 tweet shared a document where she collated the document’s relevant parts for translators and interpreters.
A glimmer of hope
In a DER SPIEGEL interview, BioNTech founders Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin discuss the development of the world's first COVID-19 vaccine, what that success means to them, and where they intend to go from here. “To see people finally benefitting from our work is really moving”, said Özlem Türeci.
On Nov. 9, 2020, though, Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin were catapulted onto the world stage essentially overnight. That's the day, BioNTech, the medical research company the couple founded, reported the first global breakthrough in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic: The company's vaccine candidate BNT162b2, developed in Mainz, Germany, demonstrated more than 90 percent efficacy in clinical studies. Almost every test subject who received the vaccine was protected from contracting COVID-19.
It was a sensation. And a glimmer of hope. In 2021, fully 1.3 billion doses of the vaccine are to be administered worldwide, making an end to the pandemic more than just a distant hope.
Last but not least
An article recommended by Mário Júnior, CEO of AP | PORTUGAL Tech Language Solutions >> Even as vaccine developments provide a clearer timeline for a pandemic recovery, 2021 is set to be another volatile year for marketers.
While hope is on the horizon in combating COVID-19, brands will continue to feel pressure to fill in the gaps during a patchwork recovery. Marketing Dive breaks down eight trends that will reshape the industry in 2021 as the aftereffects of an unprecedented year cast a long shadow.
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