It is a well believed and respected notion that the Internet makes work and life easier. I am not here to dispute that fact, I'm typing this out on my phone on an airplane. But the difference is some things can never be replicated perfectly by advancements in technology regardless of how long we try to develop it.
For example, video conferencing has made connecting with colleagues, contractors and loved ones much easier. Checking in on projects doesn't require a flight halfway around the world and long trips for business does not need to mean radio silence between a family.
Though technology does make it easier the problem is things aren't invented in boardrooms, brilliant ideas don't come about solely at ones desk and physical intimate contact can not be replicated over video chat.
Executives need the retreats to better work with each-other, innovators need that casual setting of a bar to spitball ideas and everyone needs to come home to their spouse and tussle the hair of their children. Technology can't replicate that now and probably never will.
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