The pods, which are 4-foot-high boxes constructed from wood and steel, made headlines after tech workers praised the spaces.

San Francisco says tiny sleeping ‘pods,’ which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code::The pods, which are 4-foot-high boxes constructed from wood and steel, made headlines after tech workers praised the spaces.

  • Flying SquidEnglish
    45•1 year ago

    Centered in the square carpet of green plastic turf, a Japanese teenager sat behind a C-shaped console, reading a textbook. The white fiberglass coffins were racked in a framework of industrial scaffolding. Six tiers of coffins, ten coffins on a side. Case nodded in the boy’s direction and limped across the plastic grass to the nearest ladder. The compound was roofed with cheap laminated matting that rattled in a strong wind and leaked when it rained, but the coffins were reasonably difficult to open without a key.

    The expansion-grate catwalk vibrated with his weight as he edged his way along the third tier to Number 92. The coffins were three meters long, the oval hatches a meter wide and just under a meter and a half tall.

    – William Gibson, Neuromancer

    Cyberpunk was supposed to be a dystopian vision.

      • @[email protected]English
        15•1 year ago

        Ready Player One was a dystopia and Zuck was so enamored it became required reading for building the “Metaverse”.

        Billions of dollars can’t buy you the ability to sense irony I guess.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•1 year ago

          hands book to new hire “Make this in 2 years…there’s red bull in the fridge. You sleep on that mat.”

          • MadlaineEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            You sleep on that mat.

            Dunno if better or worse than a pod.