XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 1/15/2014 8:45 PM, J. Clarke wrote:   
   > In article , robban@clubtelco.com   
   > says...   
   >>   
   >> On 16/01/2014 8:34 am, sna wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> A much more believable future for the work situation would   
   >>> be full telecommuting where you never actually leave home   
   >>> at all even for full 'meetings' of lots of people at work etc.   
   >>   
   >> This could make human reproduction more difficult.   
   >   
   > The teleconference has other disadvantages.  Like the time that a   
   > prospective customer was questioning the durability of our fiberglass   
   > propeller blades, in response to which a certain engineer took the   
   > sample and used it as a bludgeon to destroy a steel waste basket.  Just   
   > doesn't have the same effect with a teleconference.   
   >   
   In that instance, that could be for the better.  LOL   
      
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