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More than likely, one person is leading the meeting. This person has prepared a PowerPoint deck chock-full of information. Attendees are expected to listen and then ask questions. Some take notes on their laptops, or maybe on paper. Everyone expects a copy of the presentation to review later, which excuses (although no one would admit this) the partial attention given to the presenter. And, as you’d expect, half of these people will spend much of the meeting discretely dealing with emails or otherwise being distracted.

The entire meeting is structured around an information transmission model: I have information. You should pay attention and file this away. Understanding depends on how well information is communicated and how carefully people pay attention. We might easily imagine some future technology, let’s call it PowerPoint Plus, where you could attach a cable from your laptop to your brain and download the slides directly. Given how these meetings work, this sounds appealing: skip the boring stuff and download the information straight into your brain. The brainbound model says this is at least a theory.