Ex-Google CEO says business must reimagine for post-virus world


'We have to find ways to get through this Covid crisis before a vaccine is available,' said former Google CEO Schmidt, pictured here (in glasses) at a briefing at North Shore University Hospital, in New York, US, on May 6. — Reuters

Former Google Inc Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt, appointed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to lead a commission on reviving the state’s economy, said businesses and individuals must reimagine their futures as they emerge from the coronavirus lockdown.

New York’s emergence from the pandemic will depend on a wider availability and use of online technology in health care, commerce and education, and a change in how people view working in offices and at home, Schmidt said May 14 in a Bloomberg TV discussion with David Rubenstein, chairman and co-founder of the Carlyle Group.

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