We have already had intimations of this phenomenon in the migration of workers back to villages Technology experts and administrators have always known that decentralized systems, while sometimes more unwieldy and expensive to manage, are far more resilient and resistant to disasters and disruptions.
Redundancy is an inbuilt feature in these systems—cloud operations, for example, are always distributed across multiple locations, rather than being centered in one.
As the covid pandemic rages on, flattening and disrupting entire industries and societies in its wake, companies and countries are scrambling to figure out a way forward.