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Meetings... of the FUTURE!
Videoconferencing was supposed
to be like this. It was to be all elegant, modernist
ersatz James Bond conference rooms with big chairs and giant telly
screens. Did we get that?
Did we, Hell.
There are very impressive
videoconferencing setups around today. Back in the '80s I used one in Germany
that was very posh, though it was a bit like taking a meeting in a
television studio and today major corporations do go in for all sorts
of state of the art toys, but for the working schleps who "need"
videoconferencing to be more productive, it's a choice of aggravating
camera/television hookups that gather dust in the corner or streaming
video applications that are either permanently buffering or have the
feed cut off at source by someone who's had quite enough.
 We don't even have
videophones, for which I offer a brief prayer of thanksgiving.
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