Ray Kurzweil has done it again. You might recall a while back when we reported that the entrepreneur/visionary teleported himself to the World Economic Forum in London. Well now he's beamed himself to Tokyo for Sony Technology Week:
Kurzweil appeared via Teleportec's two-way "Teleportation Technology," which creates the appearance of a life-size, 3-D person at a remote location and gives the speaker telepresence to achieve two-way eye contact for real-time, two-way interaction.
Cool. That guy sure gets around, doesn't he?
On the other hand, I hate to think of what this technology is going to do to business travel. What about frequent flyer miles? Hotel points? Bar tabs? Padded expense reports? You can't get any of that stuff via teleportation.
But then on the other other hand, what about airport security? Delayed flights? Canceled flights? Surly airport personnel? Surlier airline personnel? Bad food? Constipation? Insomnia? Separation from family? Jet lag? Travel-induced exhaustion, depression, chemical dependency?
I guess it might take a bite out of those as well.
I reiterate: cool.
Posted by Phil at December 19, 2003 08:18 AM | TrackBack