“The theory among people I’ve spoken with in Silicon Valley is that tech workers trapped in their houses will start to develop new, better technologies to facilitate the process. Google Maps and Gmail, for example, were built as side projects at Google because the engineers saw a need for these tools. Now that tech employees are working remotely, they are finding new problems in the work-from-home lifestyle and creating new solutions to allow them to be more productive. Which means that these products could eventually make their way into our hands, and could justify us never going back to the office. In which case, the diaspora that has taken place from cities like San Francisco and New York to Los Angeles, Austin, and Miami will only continue.” Nick Bilton in Vanity Fair: Tech Workers Are Never Going Back to the Office: The Pandemic Housing-Market Explosion Could Upend Silicon Valley as We Know It. (I must be an outlier. The minute I can go back to my office, I will, and I may never come back home…)