He has to ask at reception if they still have them... Later: No, they don't have any newspapers anymore, but I can get a tablet computer. And then, like the other guests, I stare at the table, just past the plate where smartphones or tablets and often laptops are lying. This is not the 20.10 generation. cell phone slave.
In the afternoon I fly to Palma with Swiss in business class. I am happy to be able to spend the ninety minutes on the plane with the brilliant "Neue Zürcher Zeitung", which is distributed - at thailand rcs data least in business class. I am given water and a refreshing towel before the plane takes off; but where is the newspaper? I ask the stewardess: No, newspapers have been abolished. Apparently the passengers don't want them anymore... Yes! I want! I want! I want!
The guru of communication science, Marshall McLuhan, philosophized about the "Extensions of Man" (Orell-Füssli-Verlag) in one of his most successful works. In keeping with his time, he spoke of the crane as an extension of the gripping tools, the wheel as an extension of the legs, the camera as an extension of the eyes.