I am becoming ever more convinced that when we emerge from this pandemic, there will be a new appreciation for hybrid forms of meeting. Meeting in person will no longer be the gold standard for everything. Instead, partly because of all of the tools that are being developed now to make online meeting both productive and enjoyable, we will more often choose to meet online even when we could have met in person.
It is not that one will replace the other, but rather that they will be seen as two perfectly valid and complementary ways of meeting. The hybrid that will emerge will likely be, in many ways, greater than the sum of its parts.