Q. The popularity of the term "non-place," in contrast with "place," has resulted, among other things, in misuses of concepts that you have described as anthropological hypotheses. The excessive attention and amplification has not always been helpful in terms of the clarity of your message. There have been oversimplifications, and such misuses as considering "places" as good and "non-places" as bad. Perhaps this would be an opportune time, fifteen years after your book was first published in France by the publisher Seuil, to update the definition, to prevent further misuse of the term. ...