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I'd be interested to see what happens if a conference purposefully doesn't have WiFi. Would people talk to each other, or just not show up? Sitting in an audien
by jlees 17y ago
I'd be interested to see what happens if a conference purposefully doesn't have WiFi. Would people talk to each other, or just not show up? Sitting in an audience of a couple of thousand, everyone staring at their screen (that 'Cannot find server' page is enthralling)... it does make one despair for human society, sometimes.
On the other hand, when there's a bad speaker, we'd be limited to Solitaire; and unable to Google further resources, or diversions, or complain about it on HN.
- compay 17y agoI tend to agree, though being on the #railsconf channel was the only way to make it through Tim Ferris's awful Railsconf keynote this year. Without Wifi there might have been violence.