
Does Location Matter?
2 years ago
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?"
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?"
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