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Before 2020, we used to visit the digital realm mostly for leisure and recreation in between our daily schedules. The pandemic has reversed that dynamic and, perhaps, irrevocably inverted the relationship between our physical and digital realities. This transposition has also thrown into sharper relief a fact that we rarely acknowledge: the pace of technological evolution today far exceeds that of human biology.
In essence, we are “an archaic species in transition,” that is only just coping with a sea-change in the world around it. With the COVID-19 outbreak forcing another major shift in how we function, this gap between our technological capabilities and cognitive readiness is manifesting as issues such as Zoom fatigue and digital exhaustion.