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 wouldnt 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 dont 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 its very superficial and i think. Thats. All the small talk is well intentioned its a way of finding Common Ground but it doesnt help against loneliness john banzhaf sicko and started using a dating app to make the pandemic. Sort of i dont think id use tinder so much if it werent for our current circumstances that. After a while you lose interest with you dont want this endless visual input anymore. You want to be able to interact and you cant do that so quickly with a nap. Id always prefer a real meeting. That can land of the sciatic and let me know whats. My says on tinder its usually the man who has direct 1st. Its 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 theres always a competitive element in. The companys 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. Theyve been downloaded more than 100000000 times and between 6080000 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 dont 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 ive never spent any money on dating apps. So in general i dont pay for apps its not a great loss in effect and. I dont really believe theyd make a difference. This help. For a while i added a new function to my account which let me find people again that id swiped away perhaps more quickly than i should have. Up i tried it out but found i didnt 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. Lets. Say youre standing there on the street hi. How are you. Its weird and it doesnt feel quite right thats what that means its 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. Were not expecting any slump in business peoples dating behavior is changed by. Any very popular before the pandemic. So i think theyre 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 didnt 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 im 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 theres everyones 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. Lets check it out. Its 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 im not just talking about psycho films and pop culture from the last century. Im 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 cant even begin to think how much time ive 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. Its left the industry really really fragile in really really struggling moment this is Richard Masur hes an analyst for cap an Aviation Research firm. I dont 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 its very unlikely things will just go back to normal especially in business travelers flying again theyre 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 thats bad news for airlines but its 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 hes the founder of the Carbon Disclosure Project climate nonprofit and hes 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 were 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 weve reached peak transport i think were the last generation to do this. Ticket us about to transport particularly commuting if there doesnt seem to be any reason for us to do all this trouble but you know im just tired of talking to people through the screen all day its 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 cant really deal with flags and sound and video but people are already working on improving on line meetings so im about to meet the founder of meet envy our but not in boring 2 dimensional video called bots in Virtual Reality lets 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 dont 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 theres always a pen behind you here but you havent 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 were going to go on to make a quick sketch and then well wait another meeting. So thats 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 theres 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 its. A motional connection. Which youre 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 thats true at least for me. I mean im aware the whole time