Well this may be true, but after working on all of this group work at a distance, I am not sure that technology makes it any better, just probable!  From technical difficulties to miss-communication distance makes synchronous actions confusion.  Distance seems to add fuzz or gray matter to the conversation requiring an almost never ending loop of miss understanding.  With out the physical presence of a person (even in video) it is hard for me to pick up on instinctual context clues.  A project that should take us about 30 minutes to make decisions and move forward requires 2-3 hours.

I welcome change and would love to find a way to fill the gap between people.  I can not wrap my brain around a way to accomplish this task? Video/audio chat does this well with only two people conversing.  Make that number 3 or more and it seems that I cannot keep up with all the conversations and thoughts.  Even if everyone is on the screen in video form, they are in their own boxes.  I think of it like trying to have a conversation in an office building with others that are in adjacent or not adjacent cubicles.  This would be confusing the natural flow of conversation would be interupted because each person could not read the conversation clues given by each member.  I am sure this feeling is what persons with social disorders feel like.  They can’t read others context clues and just say what they are thinking or feeling at any time (maybe way off)?

Found this comic funny on the surface and yet even funnier when you think about it!  Media communication is created by humans and is limited to our perspectives.  So in our quest to communicate better we have limited ourselves!  Another element that makes me laugh is the thought of if we could actually read minds, the amount of information would make us crazy!  Much like the vast amount of information of the internet being projected into our heads all at one time.  Maybe that is the problem too much info our brains cannot handle it!