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[quote user="John WR"] [quote user="jpwoodruff"]My suspicion is that in a few decades, the market for passenger travel will be substantially less than now.[/quote] There are two groups you don't mention but who are a significant proportion of travelers:  People in the military and college students.  Do you see video conferencing as influencing these groups?[/quote] I think there will be a contraction of transportation forced upon us by its rising cost against a falling wage base.   Transportation will soon become a luxury that is best avoided.   Video conferencing can work for the face to face stuff.   Individuals working as a service corporations will offer the same productivity as a direct employee with no other strings attached.  Everyone engaged in independently performing some vital function in the whole endeavor, will remove a lot of the need to commute into a big central corporate hub.  It is about time!  What a waste to just roll into town every day to gather under a big tent so the boss can keep an eye on you.  We are technologically beyond that.  Every player is responsible for adding to the output, and we have the technical means to monitor exactly that.  It is absurd for an employee to spend one quarter of his or her production in just transporting their bodies to and from the big tent.
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