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Travel Nightmare: Lockdown on plugs
Great posting by Ed Kohler about a terrible new trend in US airports: Charging for electricity.
Ed took these photos at the Cincinnati airport. The scary part is how the SmartCarte machine locks down access to electricity, creating a monopoly on the suddenly scarce resource.
As blogged earlier, power is one crucial in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Geek Needs.
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
