David Franz e-mails to defend his article:
The main point of my article wasn’t to criticize cubicles, but to show that cubicles were once invested with utopian hopes. These hopes have a life of their own. I take your reader’s point that in cubicles in real life led to more privacy for some people. However, the utopia of the cubicled office was not about giving people privacy. On the contrary, it was about opening things up – replacing hierarchy and bureaucracy with community and communication. This anti-bureaucracy impulse remains powerful, though cubicles aren’t usually recognized as its offspring. I was just announcing the results of the paternity test.
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