It has often been said that human life and civilization will never be the same again after Covid-19. The same was said with varying degrees of truth over previous seismic events with global implications, including the 2008 credit crunch, 9/11 and of course World War 2. All these events had lasting impacts and certainly when life returned entirely to normal after varying lengths of time, it was not quite the same as before. Cultures, attitudes and politics had changed, technologies had advanced, and certain aspects of society had even regressed. It will be some years before the full impacts of Covid-19 can be put into any historical context but, in the case of video streaming, it is possible already to…