I hestitate to say much about whether the technology meltdown is still with me…some of it is; there has been a great deal of use of pencil and paper (I find at night these are much more ergonomic and satisfying tools to use; there is a more pleasant aesthetic in sitting on the sofa with a single lamp, tea, biscuits and a good book with a notebook next to it.. I digress).

I was struck by a passage in Elizabeth Orna’s book ‘Information Strategy in Practice’ where she writes

“And technology isn’t always involved in the greatest advances. Sometimes it is - the revolution that Galileo brought in our understanding of the universe depended on the technology that he himself did so much to develop; but the equally revolutionary changes that Darwin achieved owed little, if anything to techology and most to observation based on, as he put it, ’some ideas’ and long reflection”.