Some genius at La Guardia covered every surface with flashing screens. They stand between people at restaurants, bars and rest stops, making conversation impossible. You can’t kill the blasted things because the power button is disabled.
There are screens even in the bathroom, informing people of how long until the next cleaning. All of this money wasted on useless technology, and there isn’t even a diaper-changing station in the men’s room. Somebody should inform the airport management of the shocking news that men have children, too. In fact, exactly as many men have children as women do. Freaky!
I’m getting such screen fatigue that I’m about to start smashing these flashing, blinking devourers of human interactions.
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Although I think this is a good idea, we should have the possibility to shut it down.
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“… making conversation impossible. ”
This is the main purpose of those screens. If there’s no conversation, clients will eat faster and they will get out of there more quickly.
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I think you are totally right, David.
Read about tricks to make clients eat faster before somewhere.
Good journey to your entire family, Clarissa.
🙂
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Ugh – this is horrible!
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Off-topic, but whenever I type in your website url I come up with a page that says the data could not be authenticated, causing the connection to the page to reset. It’s not restricting access to the page–I just click “try again” and it works–but I found it odd. I don’t know if it’s something to do with the Google thing or if it’s just something to do with my web browser or network or something.
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Speaking of screens I found this rare 1958 film clip from Tashkent.
http://jpohl.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-tashkent-conference-1958.html
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Some genius at La Guardia covered every surface with flashing screens. They stand between people at restaurants, bars and rest stops, making conversation impossible. You can’t kill the blasted things because the power button is disabled.
Crazy, sexy, blinky panopticons are here to stay just like the Orwell classic 1984 predicted.
I went to the Olive Garden the other day (my mother insisted) and they had a tablet on the table, along with the usual tv over the bar. The food was just all carbs and cheese (and not tasty carbs and cheese). They don’t want you realizing your food is disgusting, too much, oversalted and/or bland.
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