Digital Nomads

The deadly virus has turned everyone into a Digital Nomad, even the unwilling and the reluctant. Taking cue from this virus-induced work-system, a few countries are offering Digital Nomad Visas to employees, freelancers and entrepreneurs. Once upon a time, the world was cluttered with nomads - hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), and peripatetic nomads (tinkers or trader nomads). No fixed location. No permanent address. No technology. Much later, there sprung a tribe of digital nomads. In The History of Digital Nomadism, Daniel Schlagwein talks of how Digital  Nomadism became…