Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.

What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.

The internet's perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain't one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point-scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional “live audience” quickly conspire to create a “perfect storm” of perpetual bickering.

It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.