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y parents had what would now be called a home business. Mum did the books and dad worked from his shed. I still remember the day Mum came home with a brilliant new invention, a phone answering machine. Oh, the magic of that tape winding back and forth on spools inside a machine the size of a volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. You could see a honeycomb of tape moving inside. We marvelled that it could answer the old dial telephone all by itself. Many people were a bit overwhelmed and at first refused to leave a message on this new-fangled machine. And now, just over 50 years later, our phones do everything, including
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Contents answering calls. But, enslaved to the palm-sized device, I’m not convinced it’s a good thing. There is an obligation to return calls quickly, not later today or tomorrow, but instantly. The same goes for email. They enslave us to being on call 24/7. Yes, technology has come a long way since clever machines answered phones and sent faxes; and each new advance seemed so exciting and impossibly ingenious at the time. The so-called information superhighway promised to deliver us more leisure time, yet now I find myself in the promised age of communication lamenting the loss of a more leisurely pace. (I must confess though, that this is all a bit rich coming from someone who has a smart phone loaded with apps charging alongside an e-book reader, iPad and laptop.) This month we look at the great digital divide. Are we in or are we out? Can we pick and choose engagement with new technologies or are we being forced to pick up whether we want to or not. In the end, as technology whiz Nathan Wellington explains, it’s going to be your call. Dorothy Whittington Editor
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