[sionnsar]

We do some of that already. Teleconferences are MUCH more common than before, and often enough we have "net meetings" -- not much collaboration but often enough for presentations (I'll be doing another such Monday for a group of folks all around the US). Last year I conducted an online class for folks around the world, using the same mechanism.

But it's all deficient. Little feedback and all the visual cues are missing.

We tried a videoconferencing setup here for a while (mostly for management), but apparently it was pretty unsatisfactory since the equipment is gone and folks are back to flying.

And our face-to-face meetings, it's going to be very hard to replace those with Internet connections. How on earth am I going to lobby someone to vote some way in the hallway during a break, if our hallways are thousands of miles apart? *\;-)

Charlie appeared by recorded hologram, was my understanding, btw (though I could be wrong).

If I got all that free time I'd start back in on the pipes...

[fanfan]

How on earth am I going to lobby someone to vote some way in the hallway during a break, if our hallways are thousands of miles apart? *\;-)

Hmmm. More thought needed.