The 21st century is well under way by now. While a box on wheels hurtles us along the landscape at previously unthinkable speeds, we can use a tiny little magic trinket to communicate with someone on the other side of the world while we watch a moving picture film on the same trinket. This frequently baffles me. I think it’s fair to say that most people in the “western world” today have a pretty easy-going yet co-dependent relationship with the internet and the devices we use to connect to it. With the help of the “Information Super-Highway” (titter), we play, work, masturbate and organise our lives.
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