The Ambient High Street

Reading in the news about two quirky new businesses, a Welsh company that is selling bottles of Snowdonian mountain air and a US firm that plans to open 'sleep centers' in shopping malls, I felt like I was leafing through the pages of a JG Ballard novel or through Brian Eno's journal. The fact that both businesses were deemed newsworthy suggests that Ballard and Eno's visions haven't quite become commonplace, although their existence implies that that day can't be too far away.