>I think the trigger that would bring people back to the office is a new economic boom based on new and unknown technology The modern Internet, the WWW, Linux,

>I think the trigger that would bring people back to the office is a new economic boom based on new and unknown technology The modern Internet, the WWW, Linux, etc. and most of the core infra as we know it (and take for granted) was built in the 90s by people worldwide largely communicating via IRC and mailing lists. If that's not an example of new and unknown technology, then I don't know what is.