Brian Gongol
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The comedian stepped up and performed about ten minutes of improv when a telecommunications glitch halted a talk at the TED conference
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Ian Pearson thinks telecommunication will have improved so much by then that many people will opt to work from home and let robots and computers do a lot of today's office busy work
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A bunch of cartoonists find it funny, too. For instance, an examination of Jon's pants takes on a totally different life without the feline commentary. Sometimes subtraction is even more interesting than addition -- as when shadows become part of a story