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Finding a quiet corner in SoundCloud’s new digs

From interfaces operated by gestures to digital ads that target the viewer, plenty of innovations were prophesied in 'Minority Report', writes Jeevan Vasagar in Berlin.

Rather fewer gee-whiz novelties were on view in the final scene, when three of the central characters were shown reading books in a cabin with smoke curling from the chimney. When Berlin-based audio site SoundCloud moves to its new offices, officially opened today, one of the rooms will take a leaf out of that final, low-tech image from the Steven Spielberg film.

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