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Technology has developed at an astonishing rate in the last two decades. One of the most incredible trends is how some forms of technology become embedded in our lives while others fall by the wayside. At the early stages of the mobile phone, who could have predicted that they would become one of the most essential items in millions of peoples’ day to day routine? The same could be said for email, instant messaging and new media, used via websites, such as You Tube and social networking sites like Facebook.

Just how do you get a new type of technology to become so widely adopted by the everyday user and what is standing in the way of video communications becoming a habitual, even natural occurrence in our lives?

Perhaps one of the keys to video communications breaking out of its business confines lies with today’s tech-savvy young people. We are currently seeing a generation growing up accustomed with video conferencing through Skype, online chat rooms and 3G video calls. This familiarity with video-based communication could mean that they are the next driving force behind visual communications in the workplace.

Accepting and adapting to new technology is traditionally a serious challenge for many companies, but if the next generation of employees are already familiar with video etiquette and the benefits that can be harnessed by video conferencing and telepresence, then barriers to adoption could very soon be a thing of the past.

Presently, when a company invests and deploys video conferencing or telepresence technology throughout the organisation they are encouraged to designate video champions or executive sponsors to demonstrate the effectiveness of the technology. They also promote video communications to help the workforce be more efficient and productive. In wider society it could very well prove to be the Gen Y’ers who are responsible for driving the use and widespread acceptance of video communications in this current decade.

Report: faster internet could help climate and productivity
Denmark stands to increase productivity by 114 billion kroner if it boosts its internet speeds, according to consultancy bureau Copenhagen Economics. According to the figures, if the internet speed was eight times faster, productivity would be noticeably affected and increase GDP by 5 percent.

Read more on The Copenhagen Post

Just to go over there league and and give suggestions and talk baseball? I think it would make us commisioners feel more like we are in charge? You can totally tell me this is a bad Idea… But I thought about it and said hey this might work… Let me know!