That means its success is in part based on the old fashioned principle of physical proximity.
It's an assertion that's backed up by academic research highlighting the importance of physical proximity in driving scientific progress.
This in turn creates the deeper grand challenge to relying less on physical proximity work and more on virtual work.
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Technology has given us seeming miracles, but technology still cannot influence, inspire and inform one another as much as physical proximity can.
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Eastern Europe too has been making a play for offshoring business based on its relatively low wages and physical proximity to western Europe.
Codecademy has a whole network of learners and CodeHS has online mentors, but there is no replacement for actual teachers in physical proximity especially at the beginning.
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What is often unsaid is that the physical proximity issues of seeing work in action and seeing them focus on work is a matter of trust in the individual.
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In the development of commerce in the United States, a frequent method of competition has been for one business to start up in close physical proximity to its competitor.
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Findings in 35, 000 academic papers showed that physical proximity mattered after concluding that correlations between the most cited papers and the close distances between authors led to more impactful publications.
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Superficially, it looks like this: consultants want to be in physical proximity of client to work together rather than use telepresence over remote work to work more closely with them, build better relationships, and perhaps with the implied intent to bill the customer for more work.
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Likewise, a person with an infectious disease, such as smallpox, threatens with serious physical harm those with whom he comes into proximity.
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