Wireless Internet service is starting to spread among airlines in the United States — Delta and American have installed it on more than a dozen planes each, and several other carriers are planning to test it....
Delta has told its flight attendants to treat overly enthusiastic users of Wi-Fi — who might, say, forget to mute the volume on YouTube videos of skateboarding dogs — like people who imbibe too much. In other words, cut them off if they start bothering others around them.
[From Not Everyone Is Cheering as Wi-Fi Takes to the Air - NYTimes.com]
Worse, the author contends, is that now even getting yourself stuffed into a flying tube is not excuse enough to be out of touch with the office.
Once upon a time, boys and girls, there was the "Gee, it's finished but the messenger service can't pick it up till first thing in the morning" dodge, guaranteed to buy you at least another evening on your deadline. But that began losing its mojo sometime in the 80's when it became possible to send documents on the net. Then cell phones and Wi-Fi began creeping in and working from the beach became possible, eventually expected. So I'm told.
I'm not in that game any more. Looks like I got out just in time. (But I'm wondering how long it will be before I can blog in the shower.)
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