[makach]

Good luck to anyone who wants to try to replace the whiteboard with any kind of screen technology.

For me, nothing is even remotely close to be able to replace whiteboard, brown paper and marker pens. I'm not saying that the void doesn't exist, it's just that the void currently is too big and all solutions are nowhere near filling the void.

With a whiteboard my experience is that everyone can pick up a pen and start contributing immediately.

Some times, to be able to discuss your problem space you need to remove all distractions.

I have had countless amazing meetings where we leave technology at the desk and sit down in a meeting room with a huge whiteboard and map everything out.

Heck, I even asked for a whiteboard to be installed in my office just to draw things out whenever I need to explain something.

It is even good for personal stuff. It's there until I wipe it away and always instantly accessible.

[jffhn]

>For me, nothing is even remotely close to be able to replace whiteboard, brown paper and marker pens.

Reminds me of an interview of David Fattal, where the journalist asked him about how he got the idea of the holographic 3D screen: "My [...] colleagues go directly to tablets to work on mathematical computing software like Matlab or Simulink, where computations are guided. Due to that, they sometimes lack intuition. With my pen and paper, I work anywhere." (La Recherche, 2015/03, translated) Here I understand "anywhere" as both physically, and in the conceptual/mental space.

>Some times, to be able to discuss your problem space you need to remove all distractions.

And also all constraints/guidances.

[gpderetta]

We have an high tech whiteboard in the office I work.

And it is fine, it is always on, you can draw as soon as you pick the stylo, the UI is minimal to non existent, you just you can drag the screen left or right to get more screen estate and when you are done you can email the result to your inbox. I actually like it.

It is not significantly better than a whiteboard, but also not worse. It is probably 100x more expensive though.

Edit: it might be cheaper than having someone that make sure that working markers are always available which is a common failure mode of phisical whiteboard. How long this will last we will have to see.

[segmondy]

Electronic whiteboard will crush regular old whiteboard if executed correctly.