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End of Google Wave: The Eternal Conference Call
by Andrew McCaskey
That Will Finish Off Google Wave
Nickolas Carr noted the ebb and flow of business communications over the past thirty five or forty years, and sets up the nightmare vision that could finish off Google Wave before the seond round of invites hits the streets.
One of the advantages of email, when first introduced was the fact that you had much of the immediacy of the telephone but allowed a few minutes to compose the thoughts before the response got sent out. By destroying the synchronous nature of query / response by phone, but still taking advantage of the electronic medium the best of both worlds seemed at hand.
It was still attractive, even if the CC and Reply to all allowed duplication with almost no effort. That minimal duplication cost and the ability to substitute activity for thought gave rise to spammers – in the public sense, and the far more insidious internal corporate spam that copied everyone on trivia, and set off additional spasms of traffic asking to be taken off the list. Which worked well until the next rising tide of traffic as a result of not being “read into” a situation.
Nickolas notes that Google Wave is nothing but the worst of both worlds: The interruptive immediacy of the telephone, the party-line noise of multiple chattering updates, and the quick to observe notes and phrasing as the words are being typed in. A Brave New World of Corporate communications, indeed.
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