We’ve spent a lot of time online over the past couple of years. I’ve been to conferences on Zoom, taught seminars on Google Meet, video-chatted friends on Messenger – even played board games over Skype. During the Covid-19 lockdowns each of these platforms offered the opportunity to do something that we used to do in person: to meet – albeit virtually.
For many of us, online meetings were a necessary evil, to be replaced by the real thing as soon as safety allowed. But what if the digitalisation of everyday life wasn’t a temporary adjustment to a global pandemic, but a permanent shift? What if the physical reality of our lives together is about to change?
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