dimanche 5 décembre 2010

LAPTOPISTAN


J'adore! L'auteur se permet quelques "réserves" sur l'utilisation des portables dans les cafés... Pourra-t-on encore y parler sans déranger ceux qui "travaillent"? Je ne partage pas tout le raisonnement de l'auteur, mais il y a là matière à réflexion.

Un extrait et le lien pour l'article:

JUST after 4 o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon, as a dozen people clicked away on their laptops at the Atlas Café in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, half of a tree broke off without warning less than a block away. It crashed into the middle of Havemeyer Street, crushing a parked car, setting off alarms and blocking the street. A deafening chorus of horns rose outside Atlas’s window as traffic halted. An 18-wheeler executed a sketchy 10-point turn in the middle of a crowded intersection before a pair of fire trucks made their way through the traffic jam in a blaze of red. Chain saws roared, sawdust flew and the horns built to a peak. It was New York urban pandemonium at its finest.

Inside the warm confines of Atlas, separated from the chaos by only a thin wall of glass, not a soul stirred. A quiet mention was made of the falling tree, a few heads rose for a second, and then, just as quickly, they ducked back down. They all returned to whatever was on the other side of their glowing, partly eaten apples. On a day when the cafe Internet connection had already been down for four hours, and the toilet had been blocked for even longer, I thought I had seen these worker bees pushed to their limit. But I had underestimated them. Nothing could stir these people. They were not in New York; they were citizens of Laptopistan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/nyregion/05laptop.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a29

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