[roenxi]

> Norman was the only one with the guts to publicly point out...

Sorry; what context was this in? UNSW maths department or some other social circle? I know I was anticipating lockdowns some time around then for exactly the same reasons as you list, but I assumed that all the mathematicians would have figured it out around the same moment.

[hgibbs]

Yes UNSW maths. Maybe everybody else had it figured out, but certainly Norman was the first to publicly acknowledge that all the learning would have to be online within a few months.

[lynndotpy]

In my CS department this was anticipated by a few of us, pretty universally so by the end of February.