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John Thackara published an essay on Adobe Design Center Think Tank on what is to stop us moving less, and telecommunicating more.

But "telepresence [as implemented up till now] sucks". Thackara claims that "it's an insult that telecoms should expect us to meet in hideous sterile rooms in front of huge screens." Yet "sustainability demands that we compromise".

Thackara argues for a more artful telepresence: "There are more interesting tasks for design than the use of brute bandwidth to achieve 'being there' verisimilitude. The communication quality of cyberspace can be enhanced by artful and indirect means." - Read on.