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Welcome to the Age of Digital Proxiimity

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This has been a long time in the coming. We all knew we would eventually get here, but we are here a lot sooner than we expected. You saw it in the Matrix, Ready Player One, more recently in shows like Upload on Amazon Prime, but really we have known it all along. We live parallel lives, one in the physical world and  one in the digital world (or is it many?), and for all these days they remained largely separated. Those that we connected with digitally, we rarely interacted in the physical world and vice versa. Enter COVID-19, these two worlds have now collided and there is a strange hybrid that is resulting. People who had limited existence in the digital world have been thrust into it. The concept of co-working spaces is  coming under scrutiny. The effects of the work-from-home are stark. Did you see that New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in terms of air quality has seen the best air quality in decades. Who really needs to go to an office any more. Granted, ther