I look forward to the day, when we can have virtual Perl conferences, and all attend ( and even give presentations) from our homes and offices. I envision something like an assignment of 10 high bandwidth channels for the various presentations, which the subscribers can choose to watch. The presenters themselves would see a large HDTV screen with a montage of all the subscribers watching (the audience), and possibly interactive "question-answer" sessions.
Once we all get fiber-optics........ which sure is taking a long time.......probably due to the political inertia of the cable and phone companies who want to eek out every last bit of profit from their obsolete systems.
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