Minor point:
The picture you posted is of a commons. I bet they are all reading the same couple of three papers.
Now everyone is in their own little universe/echo chamber.
And there are real difference between paper and screens (and you don’t have to go to a fuzzy McLuanesque interpretation of society, there are studies that back this up). [Don’t get me wrong, I occasionally use a tablet, but its a compromise of convenience, not an equivalence.]
The real point:
But regardless, my main point was not about how people read, but the absurdity of trying to give people “unplugged” spaces by giving them something else to plug into.
