Close to how I feel about video conferencing in general, and mentoring encounters in particular. "It is not easy to express my anxiety about this new tool, and what it is doing to us. But I feel there is something subtly dehumanising about it."https://unherd.com/2020/05/how-zoom-takes-away-a-piece-of-our-souls/ …
"Non-verbal communication makes up the vast majority of what we convey ... through kinesics (body language), proxemics (distance), haptics (touch) and paralanguage (hand gestures and facial expressions). ... genuine eye contact is impossible via video."https://unherd.com/2020/05/why-the-zoom-gloom-has-set-in/ …