15 December 2015
The Congress Steering Committee holds a teleconference to decide whether the Congress it is going to steer next year is a thumping great flagship of a Congress, a nifty little speed-boat of a Congress, or something in between. The Waters of Debate are a little choppy, but we have a shared desire to avoid the Rocks of Losing Tons of Money and we can also see that the Shores of Bums on Seats are a good few miles away yet. In the end we conclude that a one-day conference may be preferable to a two-day conference. Even within our most learned and sophisticated profession, attention spans have got shorter since the advent of social media. I consider suggesting that all speeches should be limited to 140 words, that speakers be required to deliver multimedia presentations, that the compere be replaced by a series of hyperlinks and that the buffet lunch be served using a drop-down menu. Delegates could be issued with headphones so as not to have to interact with the outside world other than via Twitter® or Facebook®. Key presentations could be shared via Instagram®, except for the boring ones, which would go on Snapchat® and hence disappear from view before causing anyone too much pain. I do not share these thoughts with the rest of the Committee, of course. Not yet anyway.
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