Reading this blog posting by Lars Kolind - including the article linked to in the posting - and this article , which I came across through this tweet by Bill George - including the articles linked to - I learned, for example, this: 1. On the one hand, people value exchanging ideas / chatting with / interacting with other people over the Internet / via apps as well as in various physical places - including at various Internet events and/or events in physical places. 2. On the other hand, people also value privacy / individualized, personalized offices / quiet rooms / not being disturbed when reading, thinking, writing, and/or communicating. In this regard, a key challenge, we need to handle / solve / find better solutions to, is, as I understand, how to block out noise that is disturbing for what the respective person wants to do. As Julian Treasure of the Sound Agency is quotes for in this article : "Nobody can understand two people talking at the same time." In other...