1 The Waning Days of the Road Warrior, Business Week, May 22, 2008.
Whenever there's an economic downturn, corporations slash their travel budgets. The International Air Transport Assn. is already reporting that business and first-class travel have experienced the biggest plunge in five years. Typically, when the economy snaps back, so do the business trips.
...Take HP's Halo and Cisco's TelePresence technologies, which cost up to $300,000 a pop. Chief information officers of big companies say the systems usually pay for themselves within nine months. These machines bear no resemblance to the grainy, herky-jerky technology of yore. Researchers studying bodily reactions found that co-workers on different continents experienced the same chemical responses as they would in face-to-face meetings...
...Consulting firm BDO Seidman is pushing employees to meet virtually by using WebEx technology, which lets co-workers across the globe scrawl on whiteboards and share documents. The company is saving $1 million a year...
2. Aother "TelePresence" technology?
Britain's Prince Charles on Monday gave a speech at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, although he wasn't really there. Instead, a 3-D holographic projection of the Prince, recorded last...
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