This is so awesome...

Telepresence

Very, very cool! And a great way to not expend the fuel needed to gather people from around the world for a business meeting. It'd be a great way for me to personally cut my own carbon footprint by teaching using this technology. This makes an interesting pairing with the other article the GC linked today--the one in which Susan Jacoby seems to blame video/internet technology for lack of connection, passivity, ignorance, and inability to think critically. But it's not the media; it's how it's utilized...