A new era is being ushered in by technology... and a new way to read

IT’S no more than a possibility, but a possibility it is, nonetheless.

It is possible that this is the year – even more precisely, that this is the summer – which, a few centuries from now, will be seen as the watershed between the past and the future, which ushered in a new era, which changed the process of thought, study and leisure for centuries to come.

If the proposition turns out to be accurate, then the big change agent won’t be the economic meltdown, although that may be a minor player on the sidelines. Nor will it be the property crash, which won’t, retrospectively, be seen be as even a bit player. It will be the sudden confluence of technology and market which has always characterised major shifts in the way we live and learn and think.