You can’t participate in life via conference call: media vs. pace

I couldn’t leave it unnoticed: Martin Dugage, you can’t participate in life via conference call.

This is an ad (original), but the image is very powerful. Thinking of f2f time, conference backchannelling, sightseeing, dialogue in slow motion…

I guess it’s not about tools we use, it’s about pace: you can’t connect with others at sixty-five miles an hour. You can’t learn about a city jumping here and there in a packadged tour, you can’t became friends in half an hour… Weblogs may mediate presence, but connecting with others still takes time as pregnancy takes nine month…

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/07/11.html#a1276; comments are here.

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