THE OTHER week, in my sister's average living room in the average city of Perth, my 24-year-old niece came home at 9pm on a Wednesday night to the sight of her mum, dad and auntie perched in silence on individual seats, tapping away into individual laptops. "What's this?" she barked. "A laptop party?" Then she strode upstairs and came back with her own laptop and joined us in our now four-way individual parties. Had her teenage cousin been there, it would've been five-way. And with her 84-year-old granddad, six-way.
This is how we now live: sitting in front of the increasingly ignored telly, reading, writing, scouring, buying, chortling, playing, searching and wheedling away a pleasant evening with whatever takes our fancy on the single biggest and ever-more extraordinary information and entertainment portal the world has ever known. More...
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