Thanks for your blog. I agree that the human elements of fellowship are lost in virtual events but it is hard to argue with the efficiency, the costs and ease of archiving of meetings. Institutions can slash expenses by holding conferences online but gone is the opportunity for networking and just having a lot of fun! However, I wanted to raise another concern coming from the impact of the pandemic and that is screen time in general ,particularly among young people. The VSB and the province are now taking action to limit access during school hours. Lara Boyd, Director of the Brain Behaviour Lab has shown in her functional scans that an addiction to screens produces patterns similar to cocaine addiction. We should all be concerned and supporting healthier activities for our kids. Perhaps adults should be included!
In some sense I feel like losing that human element serves concentrated power's interests even more. Diversity in substance/perspective (as opposed to tokenistic forms like appearance) generally threatens quick and easy decision making. And it sounds like these changes have concentrated power even more. Ironically, online means of interaction/meeting/voting allows for much less centralised decision making.
Thanks for your blog. I agree that the human elements of fellowship are lost in virtual events but it is hard to argue with the efficiency, the costs and ease of archiving of meetings. Institutions can slash expenses by holding conferences online but gone is the opportunity for networking and just having a lot of fun! However, I wanted to raise another concern coming from the impact of the pandemic and that is screen time in general ,particularly among young people. The VSB and the province are now taking action to limit access during school hours. Lara Boyd, Director of the Brain Behaviour Lab has shown in her functional scans that an addiction to screens produces patterns similar to cocaine addiction. We should all be concerned and supporting healthier activities for our kids. Perhaps adults should be included!
In some sense I feel like losing that human element serves concentrated power's interests even more. Diversity in substance/perspective (as opposed to tokenistic forms like appearance) generally threatens quick and easy decision making. And it sounds like these changes have concentrated power even more. Ironically, online means of interaction/meeting/voting allows for much less centralised decision making.