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   From: sna6345@gmail.com   
      
   "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   news:160120141828256533%YourName@YourISP.com...   
   > In article , 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.   
      
   > You can already do that.   
      
   Sure, I meant that everyone would be doing it like that.   
      
   I should have said that more clearly.   
      
   There was a show on TV this week which was   
   > showing a robot from one company that you can control from anywhere   
   > else in the world and the robot is your presence at the meeting (it has   
   > a small screen showing your web camera feed and has cameras to see the   
   > other people.   
   >   
   > Of course, you can also already do something similar with virtual   
   > meetings fully online.   
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   >> Same for the shopping, no need to ever visit any store,   
   >> even to make sure the item fits etc.   
   >   
   > What's this "shopping" you speak of??   ;-)   
   >   
   > With the growth of 3D printers, shopping for products will become a   
   > simple case of buying and downloading a pattern from a web store.   
      
   I doubt that will happen with stuff like cars any time soon.   
      
   >> Tho presumably most would still want to leave home occasionally   
   >> even say for just a meal out etc.   
      
   > Why??   
      
   Just because they want to. Yes, I saw both winking smileys.   
      
   Even if you did, you should still take you device with you and   
   > stay immersed online ... just watch the second half of Wall-E to see   
   > how that works.  ;-)   
      
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