Knowledge is power. 2020. No. 9

The Pandemia of Coronavirus sharply changed our life, depriving many of the usual opportunities, making recluses in its countries, cities, houses, apartments. But it turned out that the Internet and the social networks existing thanks to him provided us with new opportunities, partially compensating for the loss of the former.
Work on removal and remote communication entered our lives much wider, became as familiar as masks with gloves. Naturally, there is an understanding: the pandemic will someday end. Six months or a year later, or even two, but it will end. And the question arose quite naturally: how will our life change after the pandemic? Because she cannot but change after the serious shocks that almost all countries experienced. This is the death of a large number of people, and the huge damage that individual economies and the world economy as a whole suffered, and the damage that culture, art experienced. And difficult times for millions of people without work.
There was no shortage of forecasts about the near future. They were made by scientists, journalists, writers, politicians. In fact, what awaits us? Will the world switch to a complete remote existence? No physical contacts, all only on the Internet. But is it possible to limit yourself to remote communication in all areas of activity? And to get acquainted with the art on television, ordinary or via the Internet. For example, the famous theater director Mark Rozovsky believes that the theater cannot exist on remote communication with the audience. Artists should see the eyes of the audience, feel the reaction of the hall. Only in such an interaction can theatrical art existed, which has a huge number of fans. But virtual excursions in museums may well replace real ones. Although it is sometimes so nice to listen to the guide live - there are among them those whom you listen, without looking up, forgetting about everything. However, there are few of them.
There are their own specifics and their limits on the transition to distance forms in trade, education, medical care, various types of production, for the interaction of citizens and the state. But there is a simple human communication - relatives, friends, acquaintances. Is it really reduced to the exchange of short messages on social networks? Or, at best, to the video call? Will the trip to visit or a meeting in the cafe be an exception? Moreover, not because it is prohibited, but because I do not want to. Weaned ... there is, there is something to think about.
It is important to comprehend our own experience for each of us. We all faced the choice: to agree with the restrictions that the state introduced during the quarantine, or to afford to get the risk of getting sick. Many violated quarantine. Less commonly - from the need to save your job, more often - from unwillingness to limit yourself. Everyone himself took responsibility for their own decisions - and experience, positive or negative, will influence our decisions in the future.
The editors in the framework of the main topic made it possible for representatives of a variety of professions to speculate about the world that awaits us after the pandemic. A separate conversation about the special world, which created the current problems - the world of coronavirus, which lives its own life, evolving, constantly adapting to our world, to its changes. And invariably present in our lives. The end of the pandemic will not change anything in this