Thomas Crampton » airports http://www.thomascrampton.com Social Media in China and across Asia Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:02:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Travel Nightmare: Lockdown on plugs http://www.thomascrampton.com/airports/travel-nightmare-lockdown-on-plugs/ http://www.thomascrampton.com/airports/travel-nightmare-lockdown-on-plugs/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:26:23 +0000 thomascrampton http://www.thomascrampton.com/airports/travel-nightmare-lockdown-on-plugs/ read more >>

]]> 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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