The tool will favor distance-collaboration over in-person activities, and create an aura of "closeness" to an individual whose presence you have never been in.  Your work partner's reflection working with you in your computer screen.  Unlike video-conferencing, this is more of a "magic-mirror" effect that fits E.B.'s story. What you described, Imagination, reads like an ordinary whiteboarding tool: not very high-tech, relatively speaking.  Are you referring to the graphing tool "Imagination"?  That's quite a popular product. You wrote: "I guess all that would be missing is video conferencing to enhance the oppurtunity." Yeah, I guess.  Frankly, that no one in your company thought that adding videoconferencing would be a good idea strikes me as a surprise.  What are your plans for your product when your customer base uses fiber-optic for the web?  Conservative estimates for that capability place it around 2012, about 8 years from now.  What's that, 4,5 or 6 Imagination upgrades away?  Seems like the Imagination R & D group would have at least a basic idea that their product would include video-conferencing.... What bothers me, Ernest, is how in hell I'm supposed to do technical work when tools like we're writing about are the norm, unless I use the tools as well.  Really, I don't look forward to developing a relationship with another human's face in my computer screen. -nj