Beginning our Digital Lives

The Coronavirus has been accelerating new behaviours of how we all live our lives. I’m sitting here at home trying to predict and comprehend how remote work and remote interactions are going to increase, because shifting our lives from physical to digital is now becoming a necessity, rather than a choice. Here is some of the latest news outlining these trends in sports, entertainment, and more:

Physical to Digital Events:

The world’s largest live events companies are all suffering as pretty much all major music festivals and events are being postponed. Live Nation, the world’s biggest live entertainment and ticketing company, has seen a 50% decrease in their share price over the last month, a roughy $8 billion loss in market cap. Other companies like Eventbrite and AEG face similar challenges. SXSW and Coachella have been cancelled, while the Glastonbury music festival is still scheduled to go ahead in June.

Some recent events were not been cancelled. Welsh band Stereophonics played a concert last Saturday the 14th in a packed stadium in Cardiff. Many Chinese fans commented on social media, in shock at the fact that such a concert would be hosted in the middle of this crisis. That same night, singer Lewis Capaldi played to a crowd of 11,000 people in Aberdeen and Morrissey played to a large crowd in London. Everyone from Piers Morgan to…