{"id":92871,"date":"2026-06-04T18:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92871"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:25:16","slug":"it-was-an-illusion-that-todays-technology-is-even-close-to-a-sufficient-substitute-for-being-in-each-others-physical-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92871","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was an illusion that today\u2019s technology is even close to a sufficient substitute for being in each others\u2019 physical presence.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2026\/06\/02\/the-metaverse-was-snake-oil-for-isolation\">https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2026\/06\/02\/the-metaverse-was-snake-oil-for-isolation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>COVID, Zoom, the Metaverse, and, by implication, the limits of remote work.<\/p>\n<p>To my credit \u2014 none of it made sense to me at the time. We are primates, not LLMs. We need the physical.  But so few agreed I began to doubt \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2026\/06\/02\/the-metaverse-was-snake-oil-for-isolation COVID, Zoom, the Metaverse, and, by implication, the limits of remote work. To my credit \u2014 none of it made sense to me at the time. We are primates, not LLMs. We need the physical. But so few agreed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92871\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-92871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92872,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92871\/revisions\/92872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}