Telepresence World Isn’t A Virtual Event?
Does anyone else find it amusing when a technology like Telepresence comes along to save us from the pain of having to travel for face to face meetings, and then they turn around and launch a conference about it that requires travelling to meet face to face?
Don’t get me wrong - I’m all down with telepresence - I think it’s awesome. But traveling to a show about it just feels bass-ackwards to me.
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March 6th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Interesting point.
We have all these first gen Webinar technologies (e.g. WebEx, Live Meeting, etc.) to save us from having to travel, and now we even have on-demand technologies so that we don’t even have to convene at the same time to get the same messages and give feedback. Yet we still feel there’s a value to face to face meetings. Perhaps it has to do with the need to meet ‘a person’ in order to spend a great sum of money on a purchase. Is that a legacy behavior that will eventually ‘go away’?
March 6th, 2007 at 11:13 am
I think it’s a legacy behavior that won’t change in our lifetime. Telepresence, a term that will hopefully dissolve as the technology becomes more commonplace, will have an effect however. Once people realize that you can sit across from a group of people, look one of them in the eye and address them when you’re talking to them, and carry on a conversation where you forget the technology is even there - then you may see more business done this way. All the body language is captured - something that I feel is critically missing from Webex-style presentations. But this won’t be pervasive for a long time.