Originally Posted by
Frequentlander
There are advantages to working off line:
- No one is e-mailing me and breaking my train (clown car) of thought
- That e-mail that is waiting to be sent when I land can be edited again and again before pressing send, thereby reducing the amount of profanity
- The excuse of "I was in the air...couldn't connect" is probably good for another decade
So not being able to connect can sometimes have it's benefits.
People survived having to go by ship from Europe to North America and now cannot survive 5 hours without Facebook. As for connecting to wifi on a Mac, it connects fine, I just have zero desire to "surf" at US Robotics 56K modem speeds.
It's hard to beat the feeling of not being connected to email while already suffering through business travel so you make good points.
Anyone equipped with non-Flintstones technology can work offline and connect when they land.