Good coffee and Good Company.

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Good coffee and Good Company.

Wellington is a city well known for its fantastic coffee and its creative, forward thinking outlook on life. Wellington is well respected as the first city to create a free public WiFi space in 2010. Yesterday iconic Wellington café, Midnight Espresso announced its plans to block all radio frequencies within the shop space. Owner Audrey Hince explained, “the Nyx Network was fantastic as an idea, but since it became mainstream people seem to have lost the ability to be humans. I see people every day who avoid physical communication because digital [communication] is so much more efficient. Who wants to have a coffee with someone while they’re sitting there, communicating with someone on the other side of town?”.

Mrs Hince also hinted this is a response to the recent Privacy Bill amendment.

Wellington Mayor Liam Boulden responded by saying “this is backwards thinking. This isn’t 1990; we need to embrace technology especially the Nyx Network in order to stay ahead of the game. Internationally Wellington’s reputation in forward thinking is fantastic; we are known for our creative minds and technological milestones”.

A spokesperson for Wellington Water Co-operative refused to comment.