How did we ever run conventions...

[gerisullivan]

...without email, cell phones, and Google?

I wonder what next set of Real World innovations will make convention-running this much easier again...and when....

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[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Ubiquitous wireless (of some sort, not necessarily Wifi as we know it) and PDAs (or smartphones) could do away with the pocket program *and* the updates published in the newsletter; it could be online, and kept current from program ops. ("Could"; at today's tech levels magically made ubiquitous, I don't think this would be a win yet. But maybe by the time the things *do* become ubiquitous they'll also become good enough.)

People attending via virtual reality instead of in-person; perhaps at first via a friend into wearable computing? Don't know if this would decrease the in-person attendance or not; might just increase the total and the visibility so much that it kept the in-person steady.