The huge teleconferencing room, which the hotel where I worked used to house international business meetings, had always had special appeal for me. It was painted mostly black, and had soft, grey carpeting. In the center sat a long, shiny, black conference table, surrounded by comfortable chairs. An array of television screens covered one of its huge walls, and the screens could be used to display lots of separate pictures, or to tile many images into one big picture, like a video billboard. What I admired most of all, though, was Nick, the technician who worked the video booth and kept all the equipment in working order. Right after I started working at
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