Nowadays, there is only one communal screen experience for travellers, and that's the map showing where you are.
The teeming offspring of the baby boomers, although raised on videos and cable, seem to relish sitting in front of a communal screen.
My instincts were right and the earplugs, eye-mask and neck pillow went some way to dispelling the horror of "High School Musical" on the communal screen at 2am.
Communal screens Granted, the park is geared to heavy people flows, but it's a shame there weren't more gathering places with screens for watching events and medal ceremonies.
It's the shared experience this laughter signifies that seems to be slipping away when someone gazes into a hand-held device instead of at the big communal screen.
(This in sharp contrast to a six-hour flight I took to Hawaii last winter, where an infomercial on the tourist attractions of the islands was broadcast on the communal screen for the duration of the trip).
Working from a studio above a bustling street in New York's Chinatown, they have already transformed floors, walls and furniture, as well as the bars at Azour and another New York wine bar, Clo, into communal "screens" that are controlled by human gestures or movement, rather than with a keyboard and mouse.
As reading shifts "from the private page to the communal screen," Mr. Carr writes in "The Shallows," authors "will increasingly tailor their work to a milieu that the writer Caleb Crain describes as 'groupiness,' where people read mainly 'for the sake of a feeling of belonging' rather than for personal enlightenment or amusement.
I like tracking progress with a shared dashboard using Tableau or Cyfe (hint: display your dashboard on communal screens around the office to increase effectiveness).
Study Design: Patients were selected from among 50- to 58-year-old women attending a communal mammography screening program in Helsinki, Finland.
