With surge in popularity of online meetings, everyone can become their own little news station. And these are just some of the techniques used in television that made their way over to online meetings. When we the communicators start using a new technique that isn’t quite perfect or ready yet, we often look over the technical difficulties and wait for the eventual update to fix the bug. Like clockwork technology will improve, and the limitations of the past are forgotten with time, but that’s not the interesting part of how we interact with technology. What’s more interesting are the early adopters that learn from older media to overcome the randomness of latency. When something new comes along, the focus is often on how the technology is either bottle necked or how it could be improved. But when instead we start by looking at the comparisons to older media we’re already familiar with, we can make the adoption to a new technology more fluent and essentially more human.