Why the Digital Society needs the Open Society

May 2020 – It was big news, not only for the tech industry, when Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the company would go fully remote. Now, we can easily imagine how the future will look like for Twitter’s employees. During the lockdown, video calls, instant messaging and cloud services have entered our work routine. This mode of remote work seems novel to many of us, but it builds on a long tradition in software development.