In an email from UCU, I was sent information regarding my on-campus room’s complete dependence on wifi. Within this email was the following statement:
“The new thing about [educational buildings] is that these buildings are bristling with eduroam routers, even deep inside your rooms. This means that your wall outlet has been disconnected and closed, the Wi-Fi is the future, ask your refrigerator.”
I must admit that my confusion stems from the requested act of asking my refrigerator why exactly Wi-Fi is the wave of the future. I guess that’s just how it goes in Europe; refrigerators are all-intelligent beings, and I should defer to their judgement regarding such matters as Wi-Fi connection.
The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Dancing To 