I’ve read multiple times and have even seen screenshots of a bunch of Automatticians in the same room yet they are glued to their notebook screens, chatting to each other in Skype, P2, etc. It becomes so engrained to communicate in that method, they do it all the time, even in the presence of their peers.

Ha! Yeah, I've experienced it first hand on our occasions where we were in the same office, doing our work, and chatting on Skype while sitting right next to each other.

It's an interesting direction we're heading in, to say the least :)