Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.

The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.

I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.

Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.

The logic for me, in writing it is that the different areas or different years are almost like different rooms.

Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.