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Well, welcome back to the show, Tom. It's great to see you even though we're not together,

as we have been on many occasions in the past, in the flesh, as it were.

You've been doing this for an awful long time now, haven't you, these meetings on Zoom? I'm sure

they take their toll, though, don't they? Yes, I mean, we've had six months plus of it now,

haven't we? And even during my summer holiday when we were up in Scotland, because I had pre-recorded some

lectures which were going out in a big seminar, I had to be present for the Q&A at the end

of each lecture, even though I pre-recorded the material itself.

And so I was sitting there in a little Scottish hotel hunched over a computer and a camera,

and I was just thinking, really, it's time for a break from this.

But at the moment, that's not likely. It is at least able to have me and other people in places

where we actually, even without this, we wouldn't have been flying around the world to do these

various things. So I suppose that's a good thing but it is very tiring and people are doing it a lot um continually

report that zoom fatigue is a real thing and i've suffered it a few occasions when i've come out

reeling from a session yeah i can imagine because you're you're you're having to concentrate so hard

on you when when you do these sorts of things um That's, it's the blessing and the curse of technology. You can do anything

from anywhere, but it also means you can do anything from anywhere. Exactly. I used to enjoy it

getting on planes and thinking, ha, nobody can email me. This is wonderful. And now they've

introduced it so that you can spend the entire journey.

Exactly.

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