Any person in the care of something or someone, but being distant due to a need or due to a responsibility, at the raise of a preventable eventuality, would have wanted to be multi-present to attend the remote (eventuality-preventable) duty and the actual distant labor.
The Oxford dictionary defines 'presence' as "the state or fact of existing, occurring, or being present".
Also: "A person or thing that exists or is present in a place but is not seen".
The operating systems in the first computers were mono-tasking. It means that the user needed to finish an actual task in order to be able to start another one. Nowadays, most of operating systems are multi-tasking. Even though there still are mono-tasking operating systems in some cellphones, the trend (and need) on these is to have a multi-tasking one.
Among human beings, women have always had the natural, outstanding quality of being able to do several tasks at a time with efficiency.
Nowadays, This quality of being able to be multi-tasking is a needed and wanted one not only for the reason of employment, but also for the so many roles a human plays in a society. Human beings can be multi-tasking but only if the deeds to do are locally at the reach of their physical presence.
Today's robots, computers, cellphones, and any other device that can be connected to the Internet of Things can develop several tasks not only locally but also remotely, being, if we can call it that way, multi-present.
A software through any device connected to the web, doing several tasks, not only can it do them locally but also in remote locations. For example, a security software monitoring several watching cameras located in several distant locations from each other, and at the same time doing other tasks, locally as well as remotely, we could say that beside being multi-tasking, it is multi-present, since its 'presence' would be in more than one location.
Even human beings can develop in a natural way the quality of multi-tasking, the quality of being multi-present is (still?) an utopy (or maybe a not-satisfied-yet need?).
A good mother doing her duties in her job, but keeping a "remote blind eye" of how her children are doing, knowing that she needs the job to pay the expenses but wanting to take care of them herself, would want to be able to be multi-present at the raise of eventualities or dangerous situations. I say "remote blind eye" because she is monitoring them through someone else's eyes who is updating her by phone or any other mean but being not able to attend them or to see herself what's going on.
As in the case of the mother, a manager or owner of a company in a business trip, or any other imaginable but real situations at the raise of eventualities would want to be able to be in more than one place at a time in order to prevent and/or see/hear/talk the necessary before and/or at the moment of the happening.
A science fiction author would propose the tele-transportation as a solution to the situations above. Another would say that holograms would also help. But with none of them it is still not possible to be multi-present since your attention and/or conscience can only be in one scenario at a time.
There is a physics law that establishes that a body can not occupy two places at a time. This is true. The capacity of "self-splitting" (which is to create a copy of yourself in an instant and act as two different entities but under the control of the same thought, mind or spirit) is a fantasy. Definitely, a body can not occupy two places at the same time, but i dare to say this does not limit a conscience, the "presence" of a human essence.
I think we are not that far of having a kind of transceiver devices (transmissor-receiver), which could transmit what's wanted from a remote location to another node interconnected to the same conscience of the receiver-person, in a way that he/she could "sense" being remotely as if being locally, and being able to interact. This would be a type of network in which the conscience of the one needing the multi-presence is the server, and the remote locations are the clients, in a way that the "server" receives the "inter-communication" to his/her same mind and can see/talk/listen/feel in/from different remote locations at a same time. Would not it be multi-presence?
This way a mother wearing one of these transceivers would be able to feel/see/listen what's going on with her children through another transceiver(s) on them, and communicate with them as if she was there with them. Also, the company's owner will be able to be in his business journey and in his company and branches at a time as needed.
This would be a kind of Presence Area Network. Without doubts, this would be part of the trend of creating super humans.
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