After decades of delays, video has arrived, and is becoming the new voice.

“Video is the new voice” is hardly original, and it’s proven untrue for decades. The hard part about predictions is timing. Of course, there’ll be flying cars and robots that wash our dishes, the question is when. While there’s a lot of interesting new technologies to get excited about, it’s video that’s quietly transforming the way we work and collaborate.

It wasn’t long ago that video communications were limited to science fiction. On Star Trek Captain Kirk brought video communications into our living rooms, and other shows highlighted the concept of portable video on watches and tablets. In “Back to the Future,” when the 1955 Dr. Brown saw a 1985 camcorder, he quipped, “This is truly amazing. A portable television studio. No wonder your president has to be an actor.”

Article originally posted on the No Jitter Blog here.