Every other member of our family felt old when our nearly-sixteen-year-old daughter asked ‘what’s an internet café?’ She, of course can’t remember a time when every coffee shop didn’t as a matter of course have super-fast broadband. And what’s the problem if they don’t? There’s 4g on my ‘phone. So will even-faster 5g be the end of the world as we know it? Did cinema kill the theatre? Did TV kill cinema? Has the internet killed TV? Not yet. And, guess what? People still read books.
“The working-from-home illusion fades”
Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London Bridge every day? ‘Probably sitting at home in their bleedin’ jim-jams’, said someone recently of a less-than-helpful call centre employee, the assumption being that, were they surrounded by colleagues and with a manager cracking the whip, he or she would have sorted his energy bill more efficiently.
