It's a bit more complex: being a team means being a community and since we are not (sigh [1]) Borg but still being social animals we need a certain physical int

It's a bit more complex: being a team means being a community and since we are not (sigh [1]) Borg but still being social animals we need a certain physical interaction BUT we do need that for certain aspects, while we can avoid that for certain others. For instance a remote university is horrific, students and teachers need to be physically together at least for the majority of the time, a research team need to be together equally BUT a company that do not do much research once formed a team with a bit of punctual and casual physical interaction like few events per year do not need much the social part, individuals do have their local sociability separated from the work and while it's a change of culture and model can work well if well done and tested a bit. Actual issues came mostly IMO because of: - lack of real distributed org and practice - bad policies and tools - the sense of being in a short transitory phase so no one really need to invest in such work form In the end transports are and was for the entire human history the most expensive thing we need, if we can have many advantages of being together without the transport and physical presence need that's so good we need to work around issues as much as possible. [1] before the horrendous idea of a Borg's queen of course, because the Borg represent a PERFECT society despite the light S.T. draw on them, a fully integrated and egalitarian society where individual are really peers, all decisions are made in a pure Democracy and they can even makes memories of any individual survive in the community