The future of work, unbound: 2020 and the strange new mobility of space and time
For those of us who have transitioned to working from home over the course of the last year, we must navigate a strange new manifestation of mobility.
Far-flung colleagues appear almost magically in grid format on a screen right in front of our faces, despite their remote locations. Yet at the same time, a document, presentation, piece of content, or part of a running application already at our fingertips is awkward to share with others on the same video call.
It’s a paradoxical science fiction world where far is near, and the close-at-hand dilates impossibly beyond our reach. Perhaps these surreal distortions of time and space explain in part why “video-conferencing syndrome” feels so draining.
And even as we’re stranded within the confines of our improvised