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Teleconferencing Is Moving Ideas, Not People
Time and energy can be conserved by using teleconferencing, because information and ideas, rather than people, can be exchanged. Making this point pragmatically and graphically, Isaac Asimov, keynote speaker at the first North American seminar on teleconferencing and visionary extraordinaire (author of more than 200 books on science and science fiction), noted,"It is much simpler to transmit a message than to transmit a human being simply because he is carrying the message. There is no need to carry 70 kilograms of flesh and blood for thousands of miles when at the speed of light any message in speech, in writing, in any image, can be transmitted.
The whole world becomes one with virtually zero energy expenditure compared to what would exist before the electronic age."
In other words, green has always been a good business strategy. Tele/presence, telecommuting and other information technologies that move minds without moving people are viable for many types of human communications as "being there without going there" makes both business and personal sense. For weekly newsletter on tele/presence, go to http://www.presenceforum.com
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