Whenever the topic of video chat turns up, I am reminded of an aside in Infinite Jest[0]. > WHY [VIDEOPHONY FAILED] > The answer, in a kind of trivalent nutsh

Whenever the topic of video chat turns up, I am reminded of an aside in Infinite Jest[0]. > WHY [VIDEOPHONY FAILED] > The answer, in a kind of trivalent nutshell, is: (1) emotional stress, (2) physical vanity, (3) a certain queer kind of self-obliterating logic in the microeconomics of consumer high-tech. [0] http://books.google.com/books?id=Nhe2yvx6hP8C&lpg=PP1&dq=infinite%20jest&pg=PT81#v=onepage&q=video-telephoning&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=Nhe2yvx6hP8C&lpg=PP1&#3...