In The New York Times Magazine: Noise-canceling headphones

SILENCE GENERATION Technology adapts to eliminate the clatter of city life, one person at a time For today’s special issue of The New York Times Magazine, The Next City, I devoted the Consumed column to a look at noise-canceling headphones, in particular the Bose QuietComfort line. The connection to the “city” idea is that such headphones are relevant to the thing that makes cities both appealing and oppressive: All the other people. Originally developed for use in airplanes, Bose’s headpho