Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.
Tom HodgkinsonFaffing of course does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.
Tom HodgkinsonOne aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?
Tom HodgkinsonDeleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.
Tom Hodgkinson