I’m sat in the back of a VON keynote session. In my right ear is an in-ear headset, which means the guy sitting next to me isn’t disturbed. Poking out of my laptop bag is a microphone. On my knees is my laptop. And 4000 miles away in Britain is my brother listening in via Skype. I’m using IM to talk to him as I can’t physically say anything.
This is evil. This is what VoIP is supposed to be about. Re-invent telephony.
My brother jokes that in future nobody will ever go to lectures, they’ll just send a tape recorder. The room will just have a microphone on each chair. And nobody will go to present a talk: they’ll just send a tape to be played at the front.
Listening to predictions by the speaker on the death of big iron telco gear, Geddes Jr quotes: “The world of IT is going to take over the world of telecom because it has better APIs.”.
How true.
PS There is free WiFi at this conference, they just mis-configured it on the first day to ask for money. Still incompetent.
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