Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/11/13/phone-booths-in-nyc-turned-int.html
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Laugh now, but that’s where we’re headed…
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I could see trying it out for a day, if the weather’s nice, but the noise of New York traffic!
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i don’t see how they were able to change out the posters and other things without a cop walking by and asking them wtf they thought they were doing.
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And the smell…
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This is basically already a thing here in London.
See here: https://www.lovefone.co.uk/pages/press-info
And here:
https://youtu.be/ryHhnXoC708
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You still have phone booths?
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black or white…?
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??
I’ve been sitting down in the middle of the sidewalk with my laptop. It’s more “disruptive.”
They’re wearing reflective vests. You can get away with anything while wearing reflective vests.
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In my experience, there are plenty of folks who do their business in NYC phone booths.
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Interior cameras and AI sex detectors might stop that.
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I’m afraid I’m not sufficiently corporate woke to get what cowork spaces are. I mean… I read the Wikipedia article, I get understand the concept. I just don’t get it. It just sounds like a coffee shop with guaranteed outlets for your laptop.
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High-viz vests make you completely invisible!
A two-way radio, Motorola brand preferred, is also a very useful accessory for this sort of thing.
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About 100,000 are left, down from 2 million in 1999. 20,000 of those remaining are in NYC.
The major carrier have all bailed on them, so those which remain are owned and operated by about a thousand different local companies. Occasionally you see them in remote national parks where mobile phone service is unreliable or nonexistent.
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Some people just don’t get along very well with themselves. And/or need a clean geographical break between work and non-work life.
If there was one down the street on my block, so I could easily walk there and back whenever, even in bad weather, I might consider it. But otherwise it’s just not worth it to me. I get along well with myself, and the convenience of commuting from my bedroom to my office in my jammies outweighs the benefits of a geographical break that would require actual travel.
So, this is… satire? Help me out here, because it doesn’t seem that far-fetched. I mean, give me some noise cancelling headphones and a homeless bodyguard to chase off the pickpockets and I’m sold.
…and a confident wave.
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