Cafe to Cybercafe
Posted On : Jul / 03 / 2008
The
local cafe......... populated with students, professors, artists,
writers, and musicians, had gone, replaced by yet another chain
offering a prepackaged and franchised atmosphere that could be
found anywhere on the planet. The former rows of books, everything
from novels, poetry, and drama to philosophy and social
science....... had been replaced by, well, nothing. Emptiness.
Mirrors reflecting back the image of the consumer to himself. In
the place of books, there was now wireless Internet access......
Rather than coming in for a discussion with other flesh and blood
people facing you across the table, the tables were full of laptops
as the customers carried on their virtual life oblivious to those
around them.