the.com/teleconference
Several people agreeing to meet so they can all stare at different screens together.
means A meeting held over phone or video so participants can talk in real time without being in the same room.
from Built from Greek 'tele-' (far off, as in telephone and television) plus 'conference,' itself from Latin 'conferre' — 'to bring together.' So the word literally means 'bringing people together from far away,' which is either lovely or ironic depending on how the call goes.
- origin
- coined 1940s, decades before the internet caught up
- true cost
- saves travel time, invents new meetings to fill it
- universal line
- you are on mute happens on every continent daily
- irony
- invented to connect people, mostly proves they would rather not