Comments on: Online vs. Offline Conversations http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/04/online-vs-offline-conversations Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:22:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sean Stannard-Stockton http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/04/online-vs-offline-conversations#comment-223 Sean Stannard-Stockton Tue, 08 May 2007 17:37:41 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/04/30/online-vs-offline-conversations/#comment-223 Technology is a great tool, but it is far from replicating face to face interactions. It was great to meet you and Susan in person. Technology is a great tool, but it is far from replicating face to face interactions.

It was great to meet you and Susan in person.

]]> By: Albert Ruesga http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/04/online-vs-offline-conversations#comment-222 Albert Ruesga Tue, 08 May 2007 14:29:38 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/04/30/online-vs-offline-conversations/#comment-222 Hi, Sean. I hadn't caught this post. It was good for me too. There were many things I wanted to discuss with you and Susan, without the mediation of the Internet. I think we're all tuned in to how much we communicate through our pauses, intonations, and emphases; our timing and our cadences; our body language; and our unedited choice of words. If you attempted to recreate that experience on the Internet, you'd end up reinventing the videophone, or at least a souped up version of it. The hyper-videophone would need to transmit ambient sounds, smells, and "presence" -- the feeling you get when you're standing next to another proprioceptive entity. A text transcript would also be nice :o) Hi, Sean. I hadn’t caught this post.

It was good for me too. There were many things I wanted to discuss with you and Susan, without the mediation of the Internet.

I think we’re all tuned in to how much we communicate through our pauses, intonations, and emphases; our timing and our cadences; our body language; and our unedited choice of words. If you attempted to recreate that experience on the Internet, you’d end up reinventing the videophone, or at least a souped up version of it. The hyper-videophone would need to transmit ambient sounds, smells, and “presence” — the feeling you get when you’re standing next to another proprioceptive entity. A text transcript would also be nice :o)

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