Electronics vs. Electricity

A couple of weeks before this issue, our Annual Technology Issue, was scheduled to go to press, I attended the Incentive Travel & Meeting Executives Show in Chicago. It was a well-timed step away from sitting at my computer writing about dot-coms and e-RFPs to walking the floor of an enormous trade show, the ultimate in meeting and greeting. It was the difference between electronics, the head-spinning speed and efficiency of tools like e-mail and webcasting, and electricity, the buzz of