Are Expensive Summits Still Necessary in the Electronic Age?

Nothing beats a face to face meeting. We are social creatures and gain much more meeting someone face to face than we would over the internet or a phone call. Reading expressions is a huge part of communication.

Can you really claim to know a person if you haven't felt their warm, squirming flesh? Touching is fun. Images are less fun. Voices on the phone and letters are no fun at all.

Yeah, what Jeff said.

No, getting together like this is a waste of time and resources, BUT, it is a very important move for polititians for they need to keep act going that the rest of us believe that a minority group of people (less than 1% globally) can actually come up with the best ways of managing the earth and its people. We see war veterans, lobbyists, people you never heard of running this world, getting huge sums of money from us to pay for their expenses, yet the people with the real skills, with the real knowledge (the scientist and engieers and botanists and wild life experts and people who we never heard of but opinions we quote and refer to so often, and us) are left in the dark corners of the board, to happy and gratefull what is being dished out to us. We are all a bunch of idiots ruled by a few morons, and best of all is, we bicker and fight umongst each other about who the bigger moron is, whilst they, sit back and find to distraction for us to fight about.

aye frants, and simply holdnig such a meeting on facebook or the like would make the governments open to their people. which, as we whom can count know, would be entirely unacceptable, even in a so-called democracy