By Sudeep Gupta
I spend a lot of time on airplanes for business– meeting with our customers as Md7 helps them with their cell tower leases. Flying between cities used to mean downtime– no cell phone, no email, no connection to outside world. People grew accustomed to air travelers being out of touch for a half a day or so. When you landed, you may have had a long string of voice mails waiting for you, but at least for the for the hours when you were in the air, you had time to catch up on all those things at the bottom of your inbox.
Last year, American Airlines started offering in-flight wi-fi, and air travel won’t be the same. Now you can stay completely in touch for most of the flight. Once, I was even able to videoconference with one of my colleagues at 30,000 feet!
One one hand, it’s great to be able to keep in touch when I’m flying. But now that I’m always connected and theoretically more productive, I’m going to miss that little bit of downtime from the old days.
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