  The unprecedented outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), during early
December 2019 in Wuhan, China, has quickly evolved into a global pandemic,
became a matter of grave concern, and placed government agencies worldwide in a
precarious position. The scarcity of resources and lack of experiences to
endure the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with the fear of future consequences has
established the need for adoption of emerging and future technologies to
address the upcoming challenges. Since the last five months, the amount of
pandemic impact has reached its pinnacle that is altering everyone's life; and
humans are now bound to adopt safe ways to survive under the risk of being
affected. Technological advances are now accelerating faster than ever before
to stay ahead of the consequences and acquire new capabilities to build a safer
world. Thus, there is a rising need to unfold the power of emerging, future and
disruptive technologies to explore all possible ways to fight against COVID-19.
In this review article, we attempt to study all emerging, future, and
disruptive technologies that can be utilized to mitigate the impact of
COVID-19. Building on background insights, detailed technological specific use
cases to fight against COVID-19 have been discussed in terms of their
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). As concluding
remarks, we highlight prioritized research areas and upcoming opportunities to
blur the lines between the physical, digital, and biological domain-specific
challenges and also illuminate collaborative research directions for moving
towards a post-COVID-19 world.
