We have long known that digital mass-customization is cheaper, faster, smarter, and more environmentally sustainable than the mechanical mass-production of standardized items of mass-consumption; we have long known that the electronic transmission of information is cheaper, faster, smarter, and more environmentally sustainable than the mechanical transportation of people and goods.  When the pandemic obliged us to briefly suspend the modern, anthropocenic mode of production, we did--because we could.  The pandemic has shown that an alternative to the doomed techno-social model of late industrial modernity today exists, and it is viable.  Should we learn from the catastrophe that just struck--and at the time of writing, is still unfolding--or pretend that the pandemic never happened, restart doing everything as we used to, and wait for the environmental catastrophe that is sure to follow?