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There’s no way I can follow the Chinese here, but this video seems to be about Air China pilots unable to communicate with English speaking air traffic controllers. I’ve never flown them internationally, but I have found there to be a lot of English speaking flight attendants on Air China, China Eastern, and Hainan Airlines within China. It’s a little bit disturbing to think that passengers might be better accommodated than ground control on international flights.
I just came across a very interesting World Heritage Site web presence by way of a link from Jundo Cohen.
I’ve previously posted about telepresence and technologies that allow us to “be there” for face to face interactions over the internet. The World Heritage Tour is a collection of Quicktime 3d panoramas that allow web users to be “telepresent” and look around at many world heritage sites themselves. As more and more photos and videos are geo-tagged, I hope we will see virtual “web tourism” leveraging technologies like Microsoft Photosynth in the future.
I came across some old Cisco TV spots from 1999 that have a similar feel to the current “Human Network” advertisements. Even in the heady days of the late nineties, the claim that the internet would make “long distance calls a thing of the past” was ambitious. It is not yet a decade later, and while long distance may still linger on, many of us are accustomed to flat rate calling plans. VOIP is taking over the enterprise and consumer options abound. Now we think nothing of worldwide video conferencing – lifesize high definition conferencing is starting to take hold. Are you ready?
