In futurist Alvin Toffler‘s book The Third Wave he coined the term “electronic cottage” to describe a hypothetical future when, thanks to advances in telephony, people would be able to work from their own homes. He thought of this as a counter-revolution to the Industrial Revolution—a reversion to the world before factories & offices where everyone worked in isolation from their own cottages—but with all the advantages of interconnectivity.
I feel like by forcing the widespread adoption of work-from-home, the Pandemic has brought about the fulfillment of the “electronic cottage” idea.