We can't help but think about food

I’M not going to jump on the Dublin Web Summit bandwagon, says Colm O’Regan.

Frankly, if you’re even using the word bandwagon it shows how out of touch you are. Bandwagons are a thing of the past, having been ‘disrupted’ by iRE – an app that effectively outsources your emotions for you. iRE scours the world for hot topics and decides how you feel about them. (You’re generally angry) I’ve just made that up but already it’s worth four billion dollars.

Anyway, the web summit is gone now – off to Lisbon. Just like the Monorail episode of the Simpsons, there’ll probably be people denying it was ever here. I’m not interested in who was invited or hush money or wifi. I’m interested in one particular valuable lesson that was reiterated from the whole thing. The event had some of the finest technical minds speaking at it, millions of dollars of venture capital funding was announced, but the one thing everyone was talking about was overpriced food. Should we have looked past it and stopped being so short termist and petty?