The professor would start his lecture non-stop, with no care towards the students or their attendance. In the background, the professor’s laptop would circulate through around 70 students, and each student would show their personal QR code and full face to the camera. As this system is built by the professor himself, the technology is not perfect- it takes a few ten seconds to recognize the student. One single laptop turned real human connections between students and professors into plain numbers. I immediately thought of the telescreens in George Orwell’s iconic dystopian novel, 1984.