Thoughts during uncertain time_002
Whether hangouts with friends or work-related meetings — worldwide, most social interactions have escaped into the digital world. Some of them being very prolific, some less, some obviously not sufficient and tiring, but some interactions turned out to be simply fine for digital-only. So, I was wondering: why haven´t we tried to switch these interactions to digital sooner, not only for the convenience, but the savings in both time and money. Does it really require a pandemic, which makes physical interactions terribly expensive, for us to make the switch to a more digital world? I think this question may lead to far bigger questions. Let me try to explain.

In general, I see the time of our being is always happening in a certain framework. That framework changes slowly over time; some may not observe or not be incentivized to observe these changes. Since the digital world being the driver of a fundamental framework change over the last decade, I suspect that most people have missed the real innovations to be made here.

Let´s take the idea of a physical book as an example. It is a medium to capture and compress a lot of information into a small physical format that can be distributed widely and affordably. I know that there is more to a book, but I will assume it is (historically) simply a method of information transfer. The emerging digital world changed the framework and the idea has been refined to match. We took the book, digitized it, and sold it in the digital world as an e-book. The reason we have e-books is that we have had physical books. I think this is the part where we miss the most innovative possibilities. Instead of refining old ideas, which limits us in finding solutions, we should explore the new framework more deeply, seek novel and better solutions. The solutions we seek should be normative, driven by needs, and take full advantage of the new framework. For the idea of books, for example, it would be more efficient to organize information in networks rather than linearly. This would be a product of information with interactive components, interconnections, media, links, filter methods, algorithmic suggestions, and answers to the most frequently asked questions. This type of thinking can be applied to concepts from basic e-mails to higher education to fashion shows. There are many ideas that need to be revaluated and executed in the framework of the digital world.

These are my thoughts combined with thoughts from others.

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['Suwaythan Nahaganeshan']
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