The ICT revolution has been taking place all my adult life: I bought my first home computer in 1990 when I was 35, my first mobile phone a decade later, and then my first smartphone about a decade after that. I am already into my fifth or sixth model now, and am both painfully and pleasantly dependent on it.
Of course, all these innovations were continuations of a global trend that has been going on ever since capitalism – riding on the back of the scientific revolution – let loose human technological ingenuity. And conceit, I should add.
