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I’ll do my best not to look like Welcome to the 48 issue face. This was science fiction then; So, I just came off Waikiki beach this th
of Submarine Telecoms Forum magazine, our Regional Outlook edition.
this was something we could only imagine because we hadn’t even been to the moon yet.
My 82 year “Skypeaholic.”
Sadly, we’re not quite to the wrist video phone today, but we have come a very long way since my youth. Whether “skyping” with my team on some lonely short station in West Africa or talking with my daughter in Vienna, we can now look at each other in the eye much more easily. We can communicate much more effectively, but we have to be careful how we look – it’s so much harder to fake working when you look like you just rolled out of bed!
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Not that that is necessarily a bad thing; but he likes looking at you when he calls, and Arizona can be a pretty long way off – especially when you are traveling on another continent.
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I may be dating myself, but I grew up reading Dick Tracy in the Sunday Tribune comics, and I recall how Dick could always talk to his colleagues from his wrist watch, all the time watching them on a small video
Regional cable systems make that all possible.
week. I’ll try not to look like I am having too much fun either; and as always, save me a seat at the Mai Tai Bar.