I feel like every time I fly, airports and planes keep adding more and more screens – they can’t figure out the new place to stick them into, turning the place into a source of sensory cacophony from every direction. Is this really what people want? 

Don’t they actually want a calm, quiet place, instead – maybe with barely perceptable Brian Eno piped in? Am I an exception somehow, and it’s the market responding to what people want?

Lounges in theory exist to shield you from screens and sensory overload – but they are only for rich people or frequent travelers, but what makes people designing these spaces think that regular folks wouldn’t want fewer screens, too?