Science & Society

Videocalling needed more than a pandemic to finally take off. Will it last?

collage of people on a videocall waving

The COVID-19 pandemic made spending hours on video calls second nature to wide swaths of the public – at work and at school.

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By Anushree Dave

- More than 2 years ago

Eileen Donovan, an 89-year-old mother of seven living in a Boston suburb, loved watching her daughter teach class on Zoom during the coronavirus pandemic.