The Digital Age
Modern technology has revolutionised the way we work, play and even socialise. There is barely a single aspect of our lives that hasn’t been either touched upon or transformed entirely. Clearly the internet is the means by which our world has been most radically changed, opening up channels of thought and communication which know no geographical boundaries or limitations.
But so much of this revolutionary communications technology seems to almost pass us by, with barely a thought for the ingenuity and wonder of the discoveries which must be responsible for the fast changing face of our digital world. We take for granted that we’ll be able to upgrade our mobile phones every six months, with no thought to the scientific advances which will be necessary to realise further achievements.
We can take a video on our mobile phone and send it hurtling into space, ricocheting round the globe where it magically appears on a friend’s phone half a world away just seconds later. We happily send the equivalent of a book as an email attachment, knowing it’ll arrive in an inbox on another continent in a shorter space of time than it will take a postman to ring our doorbell.