While 2020 was an extremely painful year, it also catalyzed a new era of digital content production and exchange. : By Tiana Laurence, partner at Laurence Innovation, a pre-seed investment fund focused on early-stage tech companies in the 4IR verticals. While 2020 will be remembered as a time of Covid-induced economic pain, it was also a year when people started thinking much more creatively about the marriage between technology and economic value.