On May 21, 2008 at the Mesh conference in Toronto, Ontario, CBC Radio's Nora Young did an onstage interview with Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher with Microsoft and "a designer and a researcher concerned with human aspects of technology."

The central question was, does location matter?

In this digital age, we have many tools -- wikis, webcams, IM, videoconferencing, and other technologies of telepresence -- and yet we still seem to want to be in the same place with one another. Is that because we haven't yet got the technologies designed right, or because there's a limit to what you can do at a distance? And if we get it right, can you run a successful business in Toronto or Iqaluit or Corner Brook and not have to move "where the action is?"