The Irrelevance of Thingies
I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a technology issue. Remote work has been possible for years. Many people just don&#x27;t want to work from home, for a whole myriad of reasons. Likewise, if I am feeling lonely the last thing I want is to confront a dystopian reality of telecommunications being my best option because I live in the sticks and society has forgotten about me.<p>I know it may be a bit tropey but Ready Player One book did a great job of portraying how something like that could destroy what it is to feel part of a community in the real world. Even if you step outside of your little comms den for the day, no one else has and there is no one to talk to.<p>It happens now with social media. People spend all day clicking about, then they stop and take a moment to realise none of it actually happened, it&#x27;s just text and daydreams, and they are alone in their house again.