What nobody seems to notice

If someone had gone into hibernation for six years, starting in 2019, and just now suddenly woken up, they might be surprise by how different the world is.

One thing they would immediately notice is that millions of people, including the people that they knew before they went to sleep, are meeting over Zoom all the time, instead of meeting in person. These same people would never have even heard of Zoom in 2019.

But what would probably seem even more startling to our awakened sleeper is that nobody seems to notice that this fundamental change has occurred. If asked, people will likely say that reality is the same old ordinary boring reality, just like it always has been.

And yet to the person who had missed the last six years, this will all seem like some kind of crazy episode of Black Mirror. All of reality has changed, but all of the people have changed with it, so nobody even seems to notice.

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