Elearning - February/March 2008 - (Page 30) Next Generation Of Web Conferencing A TEACHING TECHNOLOGY THAT’S EXPANDABLE — LITERALLY — TO THE STARS B Y J E R RY R O C H E Imagine yourself sitting on a train with a mobile telephone that can project the video portion of a Web conference eight inches onto the seatback in front of you. You can even see the small type on a PowerPoint slide. That may be what the future of Web conferencing holds. Just eight years into the 21st century, the world of computer technology has already far surpassed what even the best 20th-century science-fiction writers ever imagined. Spurred onward and upward by the increasing scope and utilitarianism of the Internet, Web conferencing has the potential to downsize our home planet into a small digital village with virtually limitless boundaries — that one day may extend even to the stars. Frost & Sullivan, a leading industry analyst group, has estimated that Web conferencing software and services — including video, voice and data — will be a $9 bil30 February/March 2005 Elearning! The
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