Back in the day, before I entered into the wide, wide world of journalism, I was a jacket-and-tie corporate consultant. For 15 years, in fact, out of the 30 I spent in medical devices and biotech. As such, I did a lot of traveling. At one point, while managing the sale of a product and setup of the acquring company’s manufacturing, I was flying from Denver to Baltimore every other Monday, and I was part of a group of four jacket-and-tie types who had met in a breakfast joint in the Denver airport and proceeded to meet, all four of us, for breakfast every other Monday for about a year.
Good times. In those days, of course, if an airplane had wi-fi at all, it was costly and unreliable, a state of affairs that persists to this day. But that may be changing; my airline of choice, United Airlines (hey, I have lifetime Premiere status), will soon be premiering…
