What is the next big step in electronic communications?

3D holographic projections of the person we “call”

@coffeenut I hope not! Then you’d all see that I am sitting here in my underwear!

I’d go with a smaller Bluetooth-like headset that is voice and data capable. If you want to reach the person by voice it would act like a phone, or if you wan tot send or receive text or video you would tap it to enable communication to the ubiquitous flat screen monitor on the wall in every room.

lol

yeah; I’d have to turn their viewing thingie OFF .

When I am on a conference call I am usually doing something else – email, bathroom, lab experiment, fluther. My productivity would be cut in half if they had a camera on me and I was tethered to the desk.
“Just a minute, while I zip up… ”

How about ESP and do away with cellphones, computers and IPods? Just think it and its at your command.

You can expect the divorce rate to skyrocket.

@john65pennington And a lot of slapped faces.

RFID chips for groceries replacing scanners. Cashiers being a job description of the past.