I don’t really propose anything, other than to assert: giving people something else to plug into is not a way of giving them more unplugged spaces.
Really, that’s the scope of my comment. If the story would have been “we have a library on the subway” I would be cool with that (to reiterate, I’m a fan of libraries).
“It used to be that you were ‘unplugged’ on the subway, and even though you’re connecting to the wireless now, you’ll still have the sense of being unplugged when reading books,”
That’s what I was responding to. Sorry if I wasn’t clear.