Much recent tech is difficult to use and intermittently available

The latest technology is posing problems for employees and consumers, with questions left unanswered by its creators, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

WHAT happened to those good old-fashioned geeks, the rather shy socially awkward characters with thick specs and whiffy tee-shirts who used to populate the world of ‘high technology’?

These days, they appear to have been replaced by slick sales executives with well-tried lines in patter and by accounting types in well-cut casual suits.