Ain’t technology great
Published by Esteban Glas on June 4th, 2007 | This post lacks all category except for: Family, personal
I’m cozy at home enjoying the last hours of a Sunday when I notice a lost call on my Skype. My brother, only a couple of minutes ago.
So I call. He’s on a parking lot in Reno (my Bro is General Manager in Optimization & Control Technology for GE Energy near Tahoe), with his Mac (no comments) connected to WWAN, waiting for his wife to get back from someplace. We chat a while doing some catching up. Then his wife comes in, I talk to her while my brother drives through Reno; thus I’m not only talking to them but also learning how the streets in a City in Nevada looks like.
It just amazes me that only 20 or 30 years ago you had to send a postal letter that could arrive anytime between a week and a month (if it ever made it at all).
With a family scattered all over the globe technology brings us together. Yet nothing compares to a good hug.
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June 16th, 2007 at 12:15 am
Apparently Skype is a growing form of communication in corporations - cheap/free video conferencing. I’m not too keen on it personally, I’d rather hide behind IM.
June 18th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
We use it quite a bit on Lenovo AR, I’m not the greatest fan of it (I am an IM or email person as well) but for personal use I love Skype.