[AGL] report from the front lines

[Michael Eisenstadt]

On 4/3/2020 12:01 PM, Charles Loving wrote:
> No idea what Zoom is? The internet doesn't work for rural people very 
> well. I doubt that 50% of the people in this county even have a 
> computer. They have a phone and maybe a smart phone. I don't use my 
> cell phone out here because there is no service. So the farmers and 
> ranchers are without Zoom or Food delivery.
No, you are not eligible for home delivery from HEB. But the lack of 
Internet in the boonies is addressed in the 2 trillion dollar bailout. 
Free Obamaphones will again be available and the infrastructure to 
provide Internet to all and sundry will be coming to your neighborhood.

Zoom turns out to be an interactive browser-based application that allow 
remote conferencing. In my case, it was a seminar with about 6 
individuals taking turns to say something. If the participants enabled 
video on their computer, others could see them in their study as well as 
hear them. Predictably all the professors participating from home sat in 
front of wall-to-wall bookcases full of books. Zoom's stock price 
doubled recently - no surprise.