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To the author I would ask: what did we gain? Freedom is the answer. To set your own schedule and focus on getting real work done.

I would argue that videoconferencing provides way more information than just the written medium. Like email, or postmark before it. This is a natural form of doing business. An East India trading output way out in Siam is not going to travel all the way to London for a meeting with the leadership.