After two days of evaluating tenders ’section 17, article 17.7 - how will you future proof your systems etc…’ jumped on the Jubilee Line at Stratford. Leaflets are being handed out offering a three in one card - credit, oyster and something else. Fast asleep by Canning Town and woke up at Bond Street.

As I’m about to leave HMV in Oxford Street, Joy Division’s Atmosphere fills the store… I’m back in the summer of 1981 living in Lisson Grove, hanging out in the Moonlight Club, gigs at the Africa Centre, long walks through the city.

That summer I bought my first walkman - that played cassettes. A magazine on sale at the time had free tapes with interviews; the only one I now remember was with Paul Weller. A primitive form of podcast.

Now I’m back on the DLR, every other person has an iPoD, or sending SMS, or talking on a mobile, or scrolling through a blackberry. The Canary Wharf complex is full of computers, networks, ethernet, wireless, fibre optic cable, servers, routers; virtualisation.

Atmosphere…..