WebEx, GotoMeeting, TeamViewer, Zoom, Google Hangouts, Slack... We have probably all used them...twice or more. The Conference Audio Mixer, clumsy shared whiteboard (with pointers) and on and on. The compressed audio makes it tougher to hear people while the noise reduction algorithm clips off what I'm saying. On phonecalls, I'm missing 3/4 of what the person is saying or doing because of missed visual cues, faster in-person responses, and the muting management. That and it is tough to see everything in the conference. Why do major CEOs have tech unveilings with a crowd? What's so important at the LVCC that I can't see online? Answer, we want to connect. Social media exists to disconnect our humanity from each other. Collaboration tech can pull us together for short stints, but hi5ing the camera isn't fullfilling our propriospective sense (look it up). That is why collab tools work and don't work. We look connected but don't feel it. That's why people fly 8000 miles to our office, why I drive 300 miles every April to Vegas, and why people commute to work. Just so we can actually connect.