Word: virtualization
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Iowa, 2015. Old people wander aimlessly through virtual ghost towns. Interstate 80 is a wasteland of derelict grain silos and abandoned farms. Buildings stand empty; most factories have shut down...
Bagby told the audience that online-voting and virtual town hall meetings were key to increasing Generation X's participation in government...
...This virtual visit is one way for Ashton and her mom--who have been separated by thousands of miles since Kaleita-Sniderman divorced, remarried and moved to Ohio--to communicate. The transmission isn't perfect. Lips move. Words lag behind, like a badly dubbed-in translation in a foreign movie. An eerie whistling sound seeps in and out of the audio, and the camera doesn't catch details in Ashton's many works of art. Her brilliant yellow clay dragon with jewel-like eyes and feather wings is a gray blob on the computer screen. But to Ashton, the videoconference...
While videoconferencing is nothing new, Ashton and her mom are pioneers. Ashton's child-custody case is among the nation's first in which virtual visitation was ordered by a judge, and experts predict similar court-ordered arrangements will follow as technology advances and 4 out of 10 marriages fail. The son of an electrical engineer, John Sloop, a Seminole County, Fla., judge, has long delighted in the hands-on problem solving of building and repairing machinery, like the two-story grocery lift he helped build for his mother. So it was natural for Sloop, when making the "heart-wrenching...
...Virtual visitation cannot replace real visits, Ashton's parents both say, and experts agree. Yale University Child Study Center faculty member and attorney David Rosen calls videoconferencing "a great idea" as a supplement to real visits, but he also sees a danger. With such technology, parents might become "more casual" about moving away from their children, he says. Cynthia Kaplan, a child psychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., says parenting "is much more about being there," but for parents who can't be there, she suggests that courts appoint therapists to identify visitation methods most helpful to each child...