(grin) It's nothing to do my presenting. I'm talking about trying to get people to listen to each other. I'm just trying to get people to have normal high-functioning interactions with each other. But they're too distracted by, well, themselves.

They ask us how successful teams operate, so we tell them they all work together -- co-located. So everybody shows up in same room and spends all of their time electronically engaged somewhere else.

I have an instrument rating for flying airplanes. It's one of the most difficult pieces of technology to manage for a single pilot flying alone in hard IMC. And it's life or death. Pilots have to learn this attention span management skill to a much higher level than most people.

What I'm seeing is that technology is becoming more and more distracting, while the human brain 1.0 is still wired for face-to-face caveman communities.

But I'll work on my presentations too. : ) I'm afraid you're stuck with my loquaciousness.