Remote Interaction Quotes

Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.

Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone. The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books.

What the digital age has offered us, in terms of connectivity and transparency, is that all of these people from weird places in the world are all talking to each other, at four in the morning, and are sharing ideas. There's more openness than has ever been known, so that's a good thing.

Hollis " I said "you're messing with me right now aren't you You're in Paris or somewhere and just-" "What " he replied. "No This is the real deal. Here I'll prove it." There was a muffled noise followed by some static. Then I heard my mother recite at a distance in her most droll flat tone "Yes. It is true. Your brother is in love and in my kitchen.

With clothing being designed that allows you to be hugged virtually, video conferencing becoming ever sharper, and our social and romantic lives increasingly taking place online, the gap between the physical and the virtual is getting ever smaller.

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.

Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live.

If you think about Cisco's offerings like TelePresence, where it's an immersive way to communicate for businesses to connect and have conversations in a real-time immersive mode, how that will change health care, how that'll change retail business, how that'll change actually travel. There's lots of changes that we will see going forward.

If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I'm at home even though I'm not.

Today, the best way to communicate with someone is still face-to-face. Virtual reality has the potential to change that, to make it where VR communication is as good or better than face-to-face communications, because not only do you get all the same human cues as real-world communication, you basically suspend the laws of physics, you can do whatever you want, you can be wherever you want.

I hope that with video conferencing like Zoom everyone can spend time with family.

Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.

Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

In tech-land, no one cares what kind of car you drive, and frankly, they're not going to find out anyway. You're not going to go to lunch together, because you're going to be sitting in your cube with a brown bag eating lunch.

I think the one thing about the Zoom calls is unlike being in a room with people where you can look away or drift off, I feel like with Zoom, everyone's face is just dead center, head on, there is no drifting. It takes a lot of energy from me.

I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.

Unless it's really an emergency, I'm not going to bother you. And you can see people chafe at that. 'You're in the same office and instant-message each other? Why don't you just walk over?' That's the perfect example of how ingrained the status quo is. To certain people, it may seem lazy, but I would argue it's much more efficient and considerate.

Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.