We've got videoconferencing, but imagine if the R&D hours and experience we've got in building cars to ferry people around had been invested in 'remote cars'. i

We've got videoconferencing, but imagine if the R&D hours and experience we've got in building cars to ferry people around had been invested in 'remote cars'. i.e. Remote workstations that were like modern office cubicles, except they existed in your home. Even better, instead of cubicles, we could use an array of cameras and monitors to simulate shared working spaces. And instead of spending money on road/rail/air transport infrastructure, we spent it on high-speed data transfer links. So I could have an office on a beach, that when I entered it, I was actually inside a shared, real-time space with my work colleagues. Totally possible with current technology, but not with mindset or infrastructure constraints.