I am relieved that Boeing has dropped its $1 billion project to hook planes up to broadband internet in- flight. An aircraft seat is the last sacred place where no email spammer can reach you. Flight is a time to sit back and think, and get away from the frenzy of online communication. There is so little space these days for reflection. (apparently some Microsoft employees agree with me) My idea of Hell would be to start getting instant messages half-way across the Atlantic. I was amazed, on my last journey, to hear a man use the in-flight phone to ring up all his friends and get into the sort of inane chatter you often hear on buses these days, “yeah, I’m just going past Piccadilly now, etc.” Some people are addicted to constant communication. It’s a disease - and those of us who work online are prone to it.