When I am on a particularly boring Zoom meeting, sometimes I multitask. I mute my microphone so that nobody can hear the telltale typing, and I get other stuff done.<\/p>\n
Admit it, you’ve done the same thing. Some meetings just have a way too high time to interest ratio, and we all need to get stuff done.<\/p>\n
In the future, when people are wearing extended reality glasses, I wonder whether this trend will continue. A person at the front of a meeting might see a sea of ostensibly interested faces, looking up attentively.<\/p>\n
But in actuality, many of those people will zoning out by looking at the display built into their eyeglasses. Maybe they will be programming, or surfing YouTube videos, or shopping on-line. There won’t really be any way to know.<\/p>\n
This is probably not a good thing. The alienation of people looking at their phones at least comes with a certain amount of social signaling. We can tell when someone is surfing their SmartPhone rather than paying attention in a meeting.<\/p>\n
But when the screens move into our eyeglasses, that will no longer be the case. We may not have any idea who in the room is mentally present, and who is — for all practical purposes — somewhere else. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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