Despite the fact that AI can obliterate any human opponnent in chess, it is currently ranked the most popular game in the app stores. I catch my students playing it all the time, despite the many other time wasting apps they have at their disposal.

Despite the fact that voice-to-text and writing programs have made writing incredibly faster, with less spelling errors, there are massive online communities dedicated to pen and paper. In fact, they’re more popular now than they’ve ever been.

On that note, despite the multitude of calendar, list and to-do apps on our mobile devices, paper agendas are exploding in popularity.

Despite the proliferation of the video game industry into almost every home, board games keep surging in popularity.

Despite everything meant to keep us away from each other, we crave connection and engagement more than ever.

And that is something that will never go away.