Friday, May 30, 2008
Another Reason Not To Teleconference(!)
Continental Airlines took out a half-page ad in today's Financial Times (page 3) that reads:
"BusinessFirst. Another Reason Not To Teleconference . . . you'll enjoy a comfortable sleeper seat, gourmet food and wine . . . warm cookies, and a made-to-order sundae . . ."
Then there's the the no-humor zone, the war against more than 3 ounces of any one moist substance, the inane announcements, the border-crossing bullsh*t, the takeoff and landing delays, the absence of Internet connectivity, the lost and damaged luggage, and the crying baby two rows back . . . not to mention the escalating prices and the obscene carbon footprint . . .
Teleconferencing must be getting pretty good for the airlines to be advertising against it! In fact, it is.
The host of my recent trip to New Zealand just tried Cisco's high-end telepresence system and he raved, Telepresence is just AMAZING! I tried it too a couple of months ago, and it was superb -- the eye contact was perfect (how'd they do that?), the resolution was great, the delay was imperceptible, and all-in-all it was like being there.
"Gourmet" food notwithstanding, if I had a meeting overseas with people I knew already, and I could telepresence instead of BusinessFirst, I would.
And if I could buy telepresence futures as a hedge against the next pandemic, or even against radical price increases for airplane tix, I'd do that too.
"BusinessFirst. Another Reason Not To Teleconference . . . you'll enjoy a comfortable sleeper seat, gourmet food and wine . . . warm cookies, and a made-to-order sundae . . ."
Then there's the the no-humor zone, the war against more than 3 ounces of any one moist substance, the inane announcements, the border-crossing bullsh*t, the takeoff and landing delays, the absence of Internet connectivity, the lost and damaged luggage, and the crying baby two rows back . . . not to mention the escalating prices and the obscene carbon footprint . . .
Teleconferencing must be getting pretty good for the airlines to be advertising against it! In fact, it is.
The host of my recent trip to New Zealand just tried Cisco's high-end telepresence system and he raved, Telepresence is just AMAZING! I tried it too a couple of months ago, and it was superb -- the eye contact was perfect (how'd they do that?), the resolution was great, the delay was imperceptible, and all-in-all it was like being there.
"Gourmet" food notwithstanding, if I had a meeting overseas with people I knew already, and I could telepresence instead of BusinessFirst, I would.
And if I could buy telepresence futures as a hedge against the next pandemic, or even against radical price increases for airplane tix, I'd do that too.
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Comments:
Rock & Roll! Great Blog!
Telepresence - "The Next Plane of Existence"
Lumpy
http://www.telepresenceforum.com
Telepresence - "The Next Plane of Existence"
Lumpy
http://www.telepresenceforum.com
Great post. I agree. This is another example of a traditional industry spending time and effort on marketing old ideas instead of investing that time and effort into innovative and creative ways of reinventing themselves.
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