The golden age of docking
Did you ever see Billy Wilder’s 1960 bittersweet masterpiece, The Apartment? (If you haven’t, do yourself a favour and download it. It’s on iTunes.)
In the film, Jack Lemmon as CC Baxter plays a wage slave accelerating his path up the corporate ladder by lending his flat to various colleagues for their extramarital assignations. But before he gets the key to the executive washroom, we discover him in the middle of a massive regimented office surrounded by hundreds of like-minded drones, processing files from his in tray.
Each worker sits at an identical desk, with
