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    - The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu
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    - exact: For example, the design pattern A Place to Wait asks that we create comfortable
        accommodation and ambient activity whenever someone needs to wait; benches,
        cafes, reading rooms, miniature playgrounds, three-reel slot machines (if
        we happen to be in the Las Vegas airport). This solves the problem of huddles
        of people awkwardly hovering in liminal space; near doorways, taking up sidewalks,
        anxiously waiting for delayed flights or dental operations or immigration
        investigations without anything to distract them from uncertain fates.
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        Others like Light on Two Sides '
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 <blockquote>For example, the design pattern A Place to Wait asks that we create comfortable accommodation and ambient activity whenever someone needs to wait; benches, cafes, reading rooms, miniature playgrounds, three-reel slot machines (if we happen to be in the Las Vegas airport). This solves the problem of huddles of people awkwardly hovering in liminal space; near doorways, taking up sidewalks, anxiously waiting for delayed flights or dental operations or immigration investigations without anything to distract them from uncertain fates.</blockquote>Amazing to think how ubiquitous waiting rooms are and how we take them for granted