Opinion | Why You Can’t Meet God Over Zoom

gathering in person is a profoundly inefficient affair but it is a profoundly human affair. we won't be able to measure what it means to be here. we traded off the efficiency of our screens for humanity. we came for a vibe.

I am generally pretty skeptical about this transition, in part because Zuckerberg keeps talking about it as a radical improvement in our sense of “presence” online. I think both the mass adoption of—and the frustrations we all feel about—Zoom has shown that there is still a massive amount of headroom left in terms of improving the quality of straig... See more