just through the time. and. if you would like any of your information on the program virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. science. remember how most every 2nd show of ours here on 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 more 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 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 a dating app says you know the person on your screen is single and looking for

someone you don't have that in real life. get no credit online dating is becoming completely normal in recent years absolute normandie to you both. on the course it's very superficial and i think. that's. all the small talk is well intentioned it's a way of finding common ground but it doesn't help against loneliness john banzhaf sicko and started using a dating app to make the pandemic. sort of 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. that can land of the sciatic and let me know what's. my says on tinder it's usually the man who has direct 1st. it's good if you can think of something witty or humorous way to say hello something cool if you fancy you have to set yourself apart from the others there's always a competitive element in. 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 all social. media all social apps and money. 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 and. 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 are getting at and i've never spent any money on dating apps. so 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. this help. 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 effective 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 a date people would keep a lot of potential candidates on the backburner. 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. it's weird and it doesn't feel quite right that's what that means it's not authentic. think many people probably feel that way right now. as long as the pandemic drags on people might well keep tending to dating apps but them want will loosen swing back to meeting in the flash back to a more analogue getting to know your way of life. we're not expecting any slump in business people's dating behavior is changed by. any 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 pan 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 me 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. said ok yeah this is our life now but at least there's 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 like. here in space. let's check it out. it's always good to point to. 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 and pop culture from the last century. i'm talking about the 1900. the 1st commercial video telephone came around way sooner than i would have expected the picture for it was supposed to reduce nice business meetings but adjusted for inflation it cost up to around $1000.00 u.s.

dollars per month and for that you only got 30 minutes of call time when you call it was super expensive back then the gadgets were pretty clunky and no one really had one anyway so you want to call. inside the internet it turned video calling into a mass market. with kept increasing ince companies like this guy brought the technology to millions of people and then well. pandemic flu virus that could all know about it surprises people all over the world are working from home. the grown a pandemic was a watershed moment for video calling it can't even 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 and 2019 to almost 500000000 in 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 in really really struggling moment this is richard masur he's an analyst for cap an aviation research firm. i don't think any airline anyone is fully engaged really realized how big an impact virus would actually have on the industry over the last year the airline industry had grown tremendously in years and then it crashed pardon the pun it's very unlikely things will just go back to normal especially in business travelers flying again they're the ones who usually drive revenues by buying last minute tickets and paying for premium seats the pandemic should as 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 climate nonprofit and he's been pretty passionate about video conferencing for 24 years i was studying information technology and. i suddenly realized that video could reduce attention. transport for commuting to. all may be having consultation business meetings and i made a list of all the hurt 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 travelled with video we could slice this figure in half but then of course the 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 transport if i was to have a physical meeting with you now your. then again the physical limitations from us meeting would be much much much more than 99 percent higher than the 3 i mean 6 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 people grams so 187000

grams of emissions but what will happen after the pandemic where we just start driving to work flying again like before or where we actually keep meeting on life so i think moving forward we will see some substitution maybe he who have less business trips but they will be better business trips to remain lot more but they will be a lot less numb 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 this. ticket us 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 the 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 face the 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 meet envy our but not in boring 2 dimensional video called bots in virtual reality let's see how that goes. that is my virtual need an avatar the company created from a photo. id 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 you 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 war efficient and effective than in real life and we can do this because if you are you can actually have superpowers for example there's always a pen behind you here but you haven't been in the real world and just try to get a pen from behind you know something like i did. both times actually yes in this so

we're going to go on to make a quick sketch and then we'll wait another meeting. so that's when i feel like maybe i should spend more time in the real world as well. chris predicts our lives who move into virtual reality more and more in the next few years. some corporations from the us already using need in the hour to let the employees collaborate to find clap or brainstorm. but there's also companies who want to use media v.r. to prison. their products better for their customers and offered the more memorable and more engaging experience basically every time you know somebody tries an experience like this it's. a motional connection. which you're building with the other participants and the experience itself is much stronger than anything you would 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.