Friday, July 18, 2008
Seeing the whites of their eyes
Mark Evans had an interesting post yesterday that captured some of the thoughts that have been bouncing around my mind recently.
He writes:
But there still isn't a satisfactory digital substitute for the ability of the human mind to assimilate the analog signals that can only be transmitted and processed with face-to-face communications: the handshake, the warmth of the smile, the nervous jitter.
While there are many meetings that can (and will) be replaced by digital communications, I agree with Mark that sometimes you just have stay analog.
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He writes:
I’m not sure whether “paradox” is the right word but for all the digital chatter happening, people are still people with a desire/need to be analog. This explains the plethora of events, conferences (mesh is as much a social as a conference) and meet-ups, as well as why many people still flying around to meetings despite the time, energy and environmental impact involved.There should be significant pressures to conduct more business using virtual on-line tools - as simple as IM and email through to sophisticated life size video conferencing.
But there still isn't a satisfactory digital substitute for the ability of the human mind to assimilate the analog signals that can only be transmitted and processed with face-to-face communications: the handshake, the warmth of the smile, the nervous jitter.
While there are many meetings that can (and will) be replaced by digital communications, I agree with Mark that sometimes you just have stay analog.
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Mark Evans, conferences
Posted by Mark Goldberg @ 7/18/2008 06:48:00 AM 
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