| The techies could do a lot more to make our | | | | Could Improve MeetingsThe techies could do a |
| life at work easier and more pleasant.Take | | | | lot to improve meetings.To begin with, I |
| the telephone, for example. I don't know | | | | would suggest that something like a vaporizer |
| about you, but there are several | | | | be placed in all |
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| things that bug me about talking on one of | | | | conference rooms. The machine would be |
| these confounded instruments.First of all, | | | | activated by specific occurrences to emit |
| there are those long-winded conversations. | | | | |
| Personally, I would like to | | | | an invisible fog of an odorless chemical |
| | | | appropriate for the need.One such chemical |
| see a device installed on all telephones | | | | would be silently spread about the room when |
| whereby any business call that lasts over 10 | | | | any presentation |
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| minutes is cut off unless the person on the | | | | lasts longer than 12 minutes, without |
| receiving end punches a default button. | | | | interruption. It would cause the brains of |
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| The person who had placed the call | | | | |
| originally would have to pay triple rates for | | | | listeners to switch off the rambling of the |
| | | | presenter and automatically tune over to |
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| replacing the call.Another thing, any time | | | | contemplate a day in spring, a favorite |
| there is a dead silence on the line for more | | | | fishing hole or some other pleasantry. Of |
| than 45 | | | | |
| | | | course, it would have to work so that the |
| seconds, the machine would automatically | | | | eyes of the audience would appear to be |
| hang up and the same rule for a recall | | | | |
| | | | bright and focused as if they were intently |
| stated above would go into effect.It would | | | | interested.The same effect would result when |
| be helpful to have a pocket-sized instrument | | | | anyone declares they want to ask a question |
| that deactivates the telephone | | | | and |
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| in the office of a prospect when one is | | | | then make a self-serving statement lasting |
| poised to make the final sales pitch.Techies | | | | more than three minutes. |