Video Conferencing’s Coming Boom: Polycom CEO Predicts Rapid Growth
The telecommunications industry has been touting videoconferencing technology since at least 1964, when AT&T displayed its Picturephone at the New York World’s Fair. In fact, the concept of the videophone is nearly as old as the phone itself, and prototypes predate the Beatles by many decades. Given its long history, one might have expected that the public would have latched onto the technology, but that just hasn’t been the case. While new modes of communication, from email to texting, instant messaging and wireless phones have been adopted at astonishing rates, video communications have lagged — at least until now.