Blogging from 30,000 ft

May 27, 2006

Blogging from 30,000 ft

It is human nature to be unsatisfied. When we get a new technology, it may initially impresses us a lot. But we habituate extremely rapidly to whatever the new norm is and start complaining again.

Case in point: my flight to Delhi is on Lufthansa, and Lufthansa planes now are wifi-enabled. Holy cow! OK, for 20 minutes I was impressed. But now I'm complaining to my seatmates about the download speed (162.1 kilobits per second? pathetic!), and the fact that not all ports are open (no skype? WTF?).

I'm sure 20 minutes after they develop cold fusion, we'll find some reason to complain about that.

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Previous Comments

I for one am glad there's no skype (or cell service) on flights. It's annoying enough to have to deal with loud talkers at restaurants, in stores, etc. A whole plane full of people like that is not something I'd consider "progress".

Posted by: Anonymous at May 28, 2006 07:52 AM

How much time does take gmail take to open?lol

Posted by: Puru at May 28, 2006 11:37 AM

20 minutes? You are way too optimistic...

Posted by: ana at May 29, 2006 11:07 PM

You can Skype on SAS flights -- my colleagues do that all the time. I wonder how annoying that must be...

Posted by: Carolyn at May 31, 2006 12:34 AM