Okay, here we go.

Three, two one, boom, and we're live.

Mr. Sherman, how are you, sir?

I'm fine, thank you. I'm still breathing.

It's good to see you again. We were just saying before we got started

that the last time we saw each other was we went to dinner about six weeks ago and you're

thinking that that might be the end of that kind of stuff.

That was my last time I've been in a restaurant actually and well I you know I think

restaurants of course will reopen but I think the kind of social distancing we're

seeing now it's not going to go all the way back to the way it used to be I think

we may quit shaking hands and hugging to the extent that we used to

although I don't think we'll ever ever go all the way to the extent that we used to, although I don't think we'll ever go all the way to say the Japanese

model of social distancing, but I think there'll be modifications like that.

The other thing I've been thinking about is the change of remote, say, meetings and education.

I mean, I'm in the studio here in Santa Barbara where I've been recording lectures for

my Chapman University class, Skepticism 101. And I just upload them and share them with the students.

And then they watch them, and then I send them a quiz.

They take the quiz, they send them back.

Now that's not a complete replacement of a brick and mortar building with a small class. not traditional education that you don't really need to be in a classroom for.

Do you think that this is preparing us for the ultimate, where we embrace the symbiotic relationship

that we have with computers and become one with the machine? I mean it seems like we're coming... Be the board. Yeah, we're coming

coming closer and closer to some sort of an electronic community.

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