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Video Chatting at 35,000 Feet Works Pretty Darn Well

This morning I am flying from NYC to San Francisco. I try to fly Virgin America when I can since (right now) they are the only airline that has in-flight wifi fleet-wide. The rest of the airlines are rolling it out - slowly.

As an experiment I tried having a real-time video chat with my dad using Gmail and it worked relatively well. Video/sound cut in and out. Still, it was all quite manageable as you can see from the screen capture below.



Having the Internet everywhere is finally becoming a reality. We still have a ways to go. It should be like running water or electricity - reliable and fast. But the final cones of disconnectedness are slowly but surely falling.
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