Low-Bandwidth Teams: Remaining Human from Afar

The past twenty years have seen a rampant increase in what I call Low Bandwidth Relationships:Work or personal relationships that are based around video, audio, or textual communication with little or no face to face interaction. If in the past being remote meant that you couldn’t communicate very much at all, we now have emails, texts, instant messaging, group chats, social networking, and video conferencing tools that account for a growing percentage of our daily interactions.

These tools ha...