Gadgets in a pre-digital age. Still from Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.

Apropos of nothing I got to thinking how the speed of life and pace of change has affected the way we communicate and consume so fundamentally that it’s easy to forget what the pre-digital age was like.

When I was growing up, getting a colour TV for the first time was a big deal. I’m 54 but I sometimes feel I was born in the 19th century. Continue reading