Any article which has a line like this in it has to be saying something:

“Yet all those technophiles out there, lusting after the latest nano-proportioned, polyphonic multi-megapixel wireless gizmo, would beg to differ.

The article in question is Future Imperfect from the BBC. The basic premise of the piece is that new technology isn’t as important as it thinks it is.

I have a lot of sympathy with this point of view.

Let’s face it, a technology can only regard itself as truly important if it has been around for a few hundred years .