And maybe some of your social scientific experiments can help us to figure this out.

One thing, however, I would like to clarify is that the Third Place is about way more than cafes, they simply seem to be a good proving ground for what I believe will become a far more prevalent locus of human work and interactions.

I am speculating wildly - and as a social scientist should instead be running experiments - however I do not think that I can easily come up with an ethical design for one - but that’s beside the point. My main point is simple however: Does this third place not begin to blur the line between relaxation and business - and perhaps cause someone to not be really able to “turn off” for a while - something that is good for people’s stress levels and so forth.

((Oh - also - seriously - your blog hurts me. Firstly - it’s passing warnings to me that your version is out of date, and then when I try to update my profile to change my display name or password it gives me an error wherein I am not using the right picture format [by this it means I have no string in the box provided] and so I attempted to upload a picture to make it happy - wherein it passed me a large number of PHP/SQL errors - which I did not log - I apologize for that. Perhaps a version update is required since these seem like obvious bugs - but perhaps there’s some permission errors as well. Perhaps there are permission errors at my end since I am on a university computer anyway)).

–Sean