Do you remember when sneakernet was a colloquial term that united tech luddites against the gathering force of “the network?” We were proud to mock nascent network technology by pointing out how much faster it was to hand-deliver a drive/disk/zip to someone rather than just dump its contents on a dodgy network and, you know, hope for the best.
That was then. This is now. Reluctance to embrace a frail intranet has been replaced with a demand for lightning-fast global delivery. Camera to cloud technology is here and our reliance on network efficiencies is total. Long gone are the days when remote working was a rare perk enjoyed by the few. Today, it’s a common day-to-day culture for many.
Going permanently remote is 100% a thing now. As such, so is remote collaboration. So, how does this affect content creators? The truth is dependent on two things—speed and size—plus two questions you can only answer for yourself: Do I actually need to collaborate? And, if so, at what level?
