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How the pandemic changed your perspective of life with modern facilities.
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From Zooming clients to neighbourhood WhatsApp groups, digital platforms have become the only way for many of us to work, get fit or be educated and entertained.
We're more relaxed about screen time hours for us and our kids, a huge culture shift from just a few weeks ago. It feels unlikely that'll disappear overnight.
We now know the infrastructure can cope, on the whole. There have been wobbles, like Monday's Virgin Media outage, but broadband providers and mobile phone networks have handled the big surge in traffic.
In March, BT said it was "well within manageable limits", and it is still intending to roll out ultrafast full-fibre broadband to 227 rural communities across the UK in coming months.
Going forward, with lines between home and work blurred like never before, we'll need to think carefully about which platforms we use and what we say on them.
Still, video conferencing, once the poor relation to face-to-face meetings in the corporate world, is - for the moment - the norm. Remember that meme: "This meeting could have been an email"? Perhaps it's finally within reach.