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| Step carefully London, ON July 2022 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
When lockdowns were first implemented, a simple trip to the mall was suddenly no longer a thing. With the help of tools and technologies that barely existed a decade ago, we found ourselves ordering everything online, then waiting for it to magically show up at our front door. E-commerce for the win.
28 months on, we live in a different world as masks disappear and life seems, on some levels, headed back toward something approaching normal. Whatever normal is, of course.
Online retail is now a permanent part of our personal toolkit, and for good reason. Yet humans were built to connect, and it’s only a matter of time before we need to ditch the virtual and get out into the real world.
And as I stood at the edge of a second-storey railing in a nearby mall and wrestled with the angles playing out far below me, I mused about how an experience like this might be replicated in an app.
And I concluded it simply couldn’t be. Because sometimes there’s just no replacement for being there.
No app could ever hope to deliver a scene like this. Or the feeling one gets by experiencing it not through a screen or a Zoom window, but with our own eyes.
This may look like a stupid picture of a forgettable sliver of public infrastructure. And for the most part, that’s precisely what it is.
But I hadn’t realized until this very moment how much I had missed it.
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