Many in the information industry are able to work from home thanks to technologies that did not exist not long ago. The technologies we rely on, even proprietary ones, are built on a foundation of internet and web standards that we take for granted and may not even be aware of. The progress of technology over the past few decades is a story of ever‐increasing interoperability. The web standards from the W3C are open; free of cost; free of intellectual property claims; and have been developed to take accessibility, internationalization, security, privacy, and alignment with the W3C Web Technical Architecture into account. Our pivot to the demands of the post‐COVID era will be enabled by free, open standards and the new tools and technologies that will be based on them.

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为什么我们可以保持弹性：我们需要感谢技术和开放标准

由于不久前还不存在的技术，信息行业的许多人能够在家工作。我们所依赖的技术，甚至是专有技术，都是建立在我们认为理所当然甚至可能不知道的互联网和网络标准的基础上。过去几十年的技术进步是一个互操作性不断提高的故事。W3C 的网络标准是开放的；免费的; 无知识产权索赔；并且已被开发以考虑可访问性、国际化、安全性、隐私以及与 W3C Web 技术架构的一致性。免费、开放的标准以及基于这些标准的新工具和技术将使我们能够满足后 COVID 时代的需求。