maybe. there isn't much that can be done to. make up your own mind. double meaning. you. remember how almost every 2nd show about hero made was about digital disruption we used to collectively gaze into the future in the hope of a better more efficient life with less work and most spare time allowing tech to

take care of things the problem was governments and companies dragging their feet refusing to adopt anything out of the ordinary now the extraordinary has happened a microscopic bug has brought the global economy to its knees and forced change whether we like it or not is remote the new real when it comes to your personal life that 1st date can be so all quit surely the digital version will take the pressure out of it out of being there in person you can control the situation much better fix the lighting to suit your needs even have a few lines written down in front of you although i wouldn't recommend that you can get a good look at the other person before feeling forced into committing to anything the catch is that the other person can just as well brutally hang up without the uneasiness of getting up and walking away but there are other pros and cons of course. it was the advantage of dating apps

is you know the person on your screen is single and looking for someone you don't have that in real life. good know that it online dating is becoming completely normal in recent years absolute normandie to you both . on the course it's very superficial and i've been. doing all the small talk is well intentioned it's a way of finding common ground but it doesn't help against loneliness july and bad times he's single and started using a dating app jamming the pandemic. i don't think i'd use tinder so much if it weren't for our current circumstances. that. after a while you lose interest with you don't want this endless visual input anymore. you want to be able to interact and you can't do that so quickly with

a nap. i'd always prefer a real meeting. can land of the free i like and let me know when. my son is on tinder it's usually the man who has direct 1st. it's good if you can think of something witty or you are swayed to say hello something cool. you have to set yourself apart from the others there's always a competitive element to. the company's behind dating apps such as joy right here in gemini up in maine. we have 7 dating apps the main one is joy right joy right. they've been downloaded more than 100000000 times and between 608-0000 new users register every day talk on the quizzes d.v.d. volume is definitely an important factor that holds for also show. media all social

apps. if you don't have enough members or enough new members there might not be anyone to write to nobody suitable of the right age or nearby you need that critical mass. that was a. match group is the global market leader with a whole range of dating apps and revenues of close to 2 and a half $1000000000.00 over the past 12 months. the c.e.o. has seen the stock price more than double over the same period. we were getting at and i've never spent any money on dating apps. so but in general i don't pay for apps it's not a great loss in effect and. i don't really believe they'd make a difference. for a while i added a new function to my account which let me find people again that i'd swiped away

perhaps more quickly than i should have. up i tried it out but found i didn't really need it but still it was worth a try. if things go well digital preliminaries lead to real life which calls for creativity in times of social distancing. we know see the trend that people are maintaining fewer but more intensive contacts are. used to be the case with dating apps that in order to score data people would keep a lot of potential candidates on the backburner because. during a strict lockdown the only real option is to meet outdoors wearing a mask and keeping your distance and perhaps have

a takeaway coffee or mulled wine and chat. yeah there is the only real option but on the whole it works pretty well. let's. say you're standing there on the street hi. how are you. and it's weird and it doesn't feel quite right that it's not authentic. think many people probably feel that way right now. as long as the pandemic drags on people might well be turning to dating apps but them want will use a swing back in the flash back to a more analogue getting to know you way of life. we're not expecting any slump in business people's dating behavior is changed. very very popular before the pandemic. so i think they're here to stay and will continue to develop.

a colleague turned around at work the other day in the kitchen and said. i took a step back thinking she was going to hug me of course she didn't she was just excited to see someone in person again after talking to such a little face in a box on the screen for weeks on end i was quite fine with it i'm not a fan of squeezing into a tiny room with sweaty work mates for a meeting but staring into a computer for hours and hours can be draining there are some ways of making it fun although it has taken a long time for the technology to catch on as much of a common reports. and you can hear me sorry i was on mute is that better now how is that is that you said ok yeah this is our life now but at least as everyone's video calling people spend less time doing this. and. so i was wondering

could this actually help slow climate change can we do more than just remote meetings. and what does the video call of the future. we're in space. let's check it out. and it's always good to point. talking face to face while being on completely different places. has actually been floating around for quite a while. and i'm not just talking about psycho films the pop culture from the last century. i'm talking about the 1800s. the 1st commercial video telephone came around way sooner than i would have expected the picture from the supposed to reduce nice business meetings but adjusted for

inflation it cost up to around $1000.00 per month or so but you only got 30 minutes of call time when you called it was super expensive back then the gadgets were pretty clunky and no one really had one anyway so if you want to call it. into the internet it turned video calling into a mass market. with kept increasing and. brought the technology to millions of people and then well 4 of ours pandemic flu virus that got all know by this crisis people all over the world are working from home. the grown up endemic was a watershed moment for video calling because if you begin to think how much time i've spent in this box since the pandemic started along with lots and lots of other people. download figures for video calling apps went through the roof. jumped from

around 30000000 in 2019 to almost 500000000 and 2020 and its competitors also saw that number surge. and while video calling really started taking off. it's left the industry really really fragile and really really struggling moment this is richard masur he's an analyst for an aviation research firm. i don't think any airline anyone. really realized. virus would actually have industry over the last year the airline industry had grown tremendously in. and then it crashed in the pun it's very unlikely things will just go back to normal especially of business travelers start flying again they're the ones who usually drive revenues for buying last minute tickets and paying for premium seats the pandemic showed us we can meet colleagues and

business partners anywhere without actually leaving our homes and sure that's bad news for airlines but it's good news for the climate video communication or telepresence whatever you want to call it. has an enormous potential role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions this is paul dickinson he's the founder of the carbon disclosure project a climate nonprofit and he's been pretty passionate about video conferencing for 24 years i was studying information technology. i suddenly realized that video could potentially human transport for commuting. the office or maybe having a consultation or business meeting and i made a list of all the her occupations in the world and i reckon about half of them could be done by video when you remove half of human journeys to remove half of the emissions from essentially passenger. rail transport and of course air

transport. passenger travel makes up around 13 percent of all human emissions so we're calling to pause estimates by replacing traveled with video we could slice this figure in half but then of course video calling also uses energy and creating that energy creates a missions yes there are growing emissions from information technology and we need to pay attention to those but they are absolutely tiny in comparison to the enormous emissions from trans if i was to have a physical meeting with you now you're ok then again the physical emissions from us meeting would be new much much much more than $0.99 higher than the video paul and i talked for about 45 minutes i get my internet via copper cable which according to a recent study means that data processing and transmission created about 3 grams of

c o 2 on a return flight from berlin to london i would have cost 287 grams so 187000 grams of emissions but what will happen after the pandemic where we just start driving to work and flying again like before or where we actually keep meeting on life so i think moving forward we will see some substitution maybe he will have less business trips but i will be better business trips to iraq more but they will be a lot less in number it feels to me like a turning of the tide i think we've reached peak transport i think we're the last generation to do. it's about to transport particularly commuting if there doesn't seem to be any reason for us to do all this trouble but you know i'm just tired of talking to people through a screen all day it's just not the same as meeting in real life. in fact video calls up really quite exhausting for us our brains missed the cues

they get from body language they feel overwhelmed by all the faces staring at us and can't really deal with flags and sound and video but people are already working on improving on line meetings so i'm about to meet the founder of needs of the art but not in boring 2 dimensional video called bots in virtual reality let's see how that goes. there is my virtual meet and avatar the company created from a photo of the good to see you here welcome to media so this is our interview room we have coffee we have coffee which is warm all the time so if we are you basically have you know you don't have the limitations of reality so we are looking at every single interaction which you have normally in meetings and trying to make them even more intuitive and more efficient and effective than in real life and we can do this because if you are you can actually have super powers for example there's always a pen behind your ear but you haven't been in the real world and just try to get

a pen from behind you know something like i did. actually yes and then so we're going to go on to make a quick sketch and then always another meeting you know so that's when i feel like maybe i should something more i mean the real world as well. chris predicts our last who move into virtual reality more and more in the next few years. some corporations from the us already using median v.o.r. to let the employees collaborate to find clapboard brainstorm. but there's also companies who want to use media the are. sent their products better for their customers and offered the more memorable and more engaging experience basically every time somebody tries an experience like this it's the emotional connection. which you're building with the other participants and the experience itself is much stronger than anything you will be able to achieve through

a video. and i must say that's true at least for me. i mean i'm aware the whole time that this is just an illusion but i really feel like i'm bonding with chris by the way this is what he looks like in real life. in the future we will actually be able to have our fish expressions are brought. and we will in a way be represented like holograms of ourselves so you will be able to have an exact replica of yourself in a virtual reality just like you're doing a video call and in addition to that have all the body language and the feeling of presence so that's extremely exciting to look into that. thinks well it's a good look. so crazy to do this way just a few seconds ago. yeah.

science fiction of just a few decades ago is quickly becoming reality grams that can transmit a live copy of you are already a thing and they are telepresence robots ok some might say they're just tablets on wheels but they allow people to actually move around and take up physical space. and yes even surgeries already being done remotely and for this is especially you really want to make sure you internet connection a staple we need to build the foundation we need to get fiber optic. you go into every hole in the world as quickly as possible because building ever more roads and ever more cars and ever more airports is not a sustainable solution to increasing our communications we must. transport our our hearts our souls our presence and not ourselves.

but what's so wrong about transporting ourselves if it's done the way captain kirk would have done it beat me up scotty was the famous line from star trek you don't need gasoline for that trip i guess but not all the ideas from science fiction shows managed to become reality although my colleague reckons you shouldn't bet on that. a long time ago when spaceships were made of paper and plastic. and this note how did allem in him during the d. materialization process people and things were magically beamed about in star trek films. how nice would it be if we could be in ourselves around the

globe teleportation instead of airplanes and c o 2 emissions think about how beneficial it would be for the climate alone in today's physics in fact teleportation is no longer science fiction. you can go to i'm always surprised about all the weird things that happen for the. i know your heart is a quantum physicist at the austrian academy of sciences his excursions into space travel and just a hobby what he explores the weird and wonderful world of teleportation of quantum teleportation to be precise. having watched our trek for instance people imagine that you somehow beam matter or even energy because that's how it's done on the show that people disappear in the transporter and then reappear on an alien planet when. the similarity is that the system rebuilds the object identically in another place. what's more at the exact same time or instantaneously

regardless of the distance involved that's how the quantum world works via quantum entanglement einstein thought it was pretty spooky transferring information faster than the speed of light so does this mean travelling not only with 0 emissions but also with 0 delay. because what happens with quantum teleportation is that really just the quantum information in this system is transferred to another place onto another identical system. with the matter itself atoms or photons or whatever it's made of does not get transferred so it doesn't disappear. but what does disappears the information it gets destroyed. so if 2 quanta are connected this way they can exchange information without a moment's delay but not the matter it really is just the information.

ok event couldn't i just split myself into quanta and so fair information to another entangled quantum cloud i mean then i would just need to be reassembled correctly right. let's just say that right now we don't know of anything that would fundamentally speak against it but it would have to work in a completely different way but. we'll need completely different set ups than what we're creating now. if i could build a device that could do this and you'd ask me whether i would put myself inside it i'd say no. so mr spock would probably have to get beamed into glittery shower of aluminum grey like in the old days. and don't forget the enterprise at least spread

through the universe powered by an anti matter and hydrogen engine with not even a whiff of emissions. by the way a piece of trivia for you the words you me up scotty whenever said precisely in better form in the star trek sirius maybe other work with the me apart. ok that's totally new to me but i just googled it and she's right you learn something new every day now through a real work in progress my colleague. who's been locked away in his home office for a little too long i believe someone's really got to go around to check out how paul of coming along i think is starting to talk to him self side of madness but all of these virtual changes can be overwhelming. if. we right there another day of online chatting. shit. and who's

online just me and some important people i'm so important ok here we go again. hi it's me nice to see you guys. who. do this you don't look so great you're really paid you need to go outside and get some fresh air bri you can sit in front of you computer forever and you need to relax and recent take a break from all this stress. you need to move about and break free take a swing. what are you talking about. i take a swing if i printed here since march that's a lot of months now i have my next check and then another one and another and i mustn't forget monsoreau to do so break free

a bit. just a moment i'll be right there or i don't and. yeah. oh my god it happened you have to take the stairs that's important that's really helpful especially for people like you who are glued to their computers all day you need to take the stairs and move your hips a bit intense at last and not in a concert another conference another chat more new software more wept rafiq traffic counts of i can do 20 chats 50 chats 100 chips come on guys let's make it a 1000000 there mom and the me your. i don't know hey. that's half t. . that's it that will relax you.

to boston that you needed tiebreak to play. deploy you get dehydrated as an issue what mr know it all doesn't realize is that i've already got myself very comfortable. here there. everywhere. it's often a shock when you're so focused on your work and someone real suddenly now it's at the door in my case it's usually the postman asking if all except a package for a neighbor it's always smack bang in the middle of his or meeting our brave new

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