I remember my dad telling me one day we could see each other over the phone and finding this insanely cool. We imagined it as a sort of mini tv on top of the landline phone.

No one predicted me writing to you from an elevator in Hong Kong and having the speed of interaction under a few milliseconds. And now that I Skype my dad across the ocean, it seems like a very secondary and minor feature of the internet.

Whatsapp alone changed how we interact with far away family as if we never left.