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Re:Oakland Cafe Owner's Banning Laptop Experiment by joezydeco on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @11:19PM (#1149997)
wireless has made coffee shops so popular that people once again value them as social centers

You mean social with each other, or social with their online friends?

Re:Oakland Cafe Owner's Banning Laptop Experiment by carbon8 on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @11:50PM (#1150029)
Social with each other. Neighborhood social centers, enough so that people care enough to even consider banning laptops.