Stop whinging about your digital fears. It's just the latest step in 'civilisation'.

Is it all going to end in an Instagrammed, available-on-Etsy handcart, asks Suzanne Harrington.

We - that is, you and I - whose teeth are longer than those of Gen Z, who remain uncertain if emojis are a valid form of communication — love to decry the digital decline of civilisation.

The novelist Will Self writes about “the tyranny of the virtual” in the current edition of Harper’s, examining the “great technical discontinuity of our era”.