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Communications News, Sept, 2000 by Curtis Schmidt

Dear Mr. Anderberg

I enjoyed your interesting and informative column on videoconferencing coming of age. Videoconferencing has great applications for interviewing. I can also easily see many business applications. We may all be viewing and speaking to clerks at banks and grocery stores.

Your final sentence, however, threw a couple of "reality" questions into my mind.

1. Do we honestly want cameras staring at us from our computer monitors daily? And

2. Do we really want "faces with names" in all of our phone conversations? The inventors seem to be taking for granted that we all want such features. I think the potential applications are fantastic--but I'm not sure I want a camera staring at me all day.

--Curtis Schmidt, marketing director, UltraShare, Danbury, CT

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