Corporate America turned coffee shops into cubicles. A more human cafe culture is fighting back.

Corporate America turned coffee shops into cubicles. A more human cafe culture is fighting back.

I’ve only been kicked out of a coffee shop once — in Sarajevo — by its Muslim Bosniak owner, a flustered old man whose extent of the English language, in that moment, began and ended with the crystal-clear command “OUT!” My crime? I pulled out my computer to do what I’m doing right now: typing away in a coffee shop.The future won’t be a total rejection of digital life, but a deliberate recalibration of it. One where we build spaces that embrace …