Ferrell envisions a world, for example, where your routine morning coffee would be automatically ordered at the exact time to have it waiting for you at your local cafe on the way to work.
Starting as early as next year, the planned renovation would transform the stacks into a public area containing a new circulating library looking over Bryant Park with bookshelves, rooms for people to work together and, perhaps, a cafe.
In late 2006 he started to work at Kampala Ballet and Modern Dance School's new cafe and the following year joined a barista training course held by the Uganda Coffee Development Authority.