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I don't think it's a failure, it's just not ubiquitous. We have huge tele-presense units in most of our offices to facilitate meetings that used to require pla

I don't think it's a failure, it's just not ubiquitous. We have huge tele-presense units in most of our offices to facilitate meetings that used to require plane rides and hotels.

api 11y ago
They also had hypertext in 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY It's a failure in the sense that it's not generally available or in general use. I've also used tele-presence rooms before and they're not that great. Better than Skype or Google Hangouts, but not by much.
rhino369 11y ago
Telepresence in those situations are mostly just replacing vanilla conference calls. Now it's a telephone call with awkward video. Whether society will view that as good enough to replace business trips remains to be seen. Though email and VPN do allow more telework than has ever occurred before.