Editorial: Enabling a New Age Collaboration

Andrew Updegrove, Partner, Gesmer Updegrove LLP

3/22/2010
(Original Publish Date: 2/1/2010)

Collaboration has always been an essential part of human activity, but until the advent of the Internet, the technological means by which non-local collaboration could occur seldom progressed to any meaningful extent. Only three great enabling leaps forward preceded the current century: the invention of the printing press, which allowed ideas to spread farther, faster, and to more recipients; modern transportation, which allowed people to travel farther, faster and more often to meet with others; and the modern telecommunications system, which allowed real-time interaction to occur across great distances, albeit mostly on a one-on-one basis.