Technology is enabling us to get ever closer to the ideal of casual and seamless face-to-face communication over long distances. In fits and starts we're pulling in more tools and options for communicating and getting us closer to a video-based ideal thanks to better devices and faster broadband connections.
Skype (s msft) is reportedly testing video messaging options for mobile users today.
This is a pretty interesting realization of bandwidth not being able to keep up with our communication if you have a few seconds to read it.