It's a photo taken in 1972 of a Philip Morris office space, all white and empty but for rank-and-file black telephones on the floor hooked up to outlet poles as if on IV support.
Fred Schmidt, property specialist at Morgan Stanley in Tokyo, says workers' demands for a better environment are transforming the way developers put up buildings: ceiling heights are rising, for instance, while currency traders want a Starbucks outlet on their floor.
Why should a hotel desk lamp merely provide light when it can also contain an electrical outlet and a phone jack for your laptop so you don't have to crawl around the floor plugging stuff in?