Seventeenth century English coffee-houses, to quote Steven Johnson, were places where people “would get together from different fields of expertise and their ideas could have sex. This was their conjugal bed in a sense.”
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This concept is usually used as a popular model for modern co-working spaces: engineering serendipity. At least that’s the case with Twenty Fifty, a popular up-and-coming co-working and networking clubhouse for startups and freelancers in Cape Town, South Africa.
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