"Places where people hang their wishes and dreams? So it's malls?"
"Malls, but also schools, parks -- that's like the old days -- and then some web sites and virtual locales -- I've met the AOL spirit; he's in the mall too -- and then there are even a few TV shows that people take as their true homes. The spirits of those shows tell me that it's a strange experience, to be the spirit of a TV show and look out at people facing the machine like a shrine, with all their wishes and dreams."
"But isn't that the 'death of place' we hear about."
"Mutation, not death. If we spirits can adapt, so can you."
(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001