DoD Ch. 7

    Chapter seven begins with a discussion about telecollaboration and why it is such a necessity in todays society since peoples skill sets can be so rare.  Then Brooks talks about the Airbus collaboration that span across four countries. The nest page discusses the collaboration on the IMB System/360 Computer Family, which has been talked about several times, and how it was harder to collaborate because of primitive technology. Then Brooks writes about how to make telecollaboration work. Next he tells us how important smooth flowing, well-defined interfaces are. Then Brooks talks about the importance in face-time and low tech communication like the post letter. He then explains the levels of important technologies for collaboration, i.e. letter, telephone, document sharing and videoconferencing. Then Books mentions that videoconferencing actually didn't grow as rapidly as expected dues to low frame rates and bandwidth limitations. Brooks concludes talking about how collaboration tools are used mostly among educators and not in the design world.