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Business in Entertainment Class

Surprising level of support for StarOffice - changes the backseat display on the Airbus A340 from a entertainment and information portal to something a little more business. The console interface is highly unsuitable for pointer based interaction, so don't expect to see a lot of people using this. But how does it affect the traveler's perception of the flight as a space where they are in control of what they do? What their colleagues expect them to do?

More on how formal infrastructure changes our expectations of what is socially acceptable, in this Tokyo cafe.

Writing from skies over | June 10, 2008 | Permalink