At 02:18 PM 8/31/2001 -0400, Wirt Atmar wrote:
>To change the subject a little bit, we may be on the verge of the end of the
>large conference under any circumstance. If you took Jeff's, Vikram's, and
>Mark's PowerPoint slides and imagine that they had added sound to them, so
>that the authors gave their talks in a synchronized fashion, there would much
>less reason for us all to get together.
>

<snip>

>While we would further isolate ourselves from one another in this scenario --
>and it is a real pleasure to eventually associate a face with a name -- the
>process would have the offsetting advantages of being highly democratizing,
>in that users anywhere in the world would all be put on an equal footing.

Seeing others in person is more than just a pleasure. Some of the best
exchanges of information take place in spontaneous conversations.

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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
313 N. 1st Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
http://www.northtech.com/

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