Why Skype and Zoom Will Never Replace Business Travel
Humans evolved to strike deals over drinks
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4 min readMay 17, 2021
In 1889, Jules Verne predicted that the “phonotelephote” — essentially a dedicated videoconferencing device that he imagined would become commonplace by the year 2889 (!) — would make business travel obsolete. We didn’t have to wait a thousand years. Videoconferencing became a real technology in 1968…
