I used to be the young gun. I rolled my eyes as older colleagues spoke because I thought I knew it all, and I felt blessed with absolute certainty. Today I look at the expressions on the faces of my younger colleagues and know they are thinking ‘stupid old fool’, but this is just the turn of life. This brings me to technology.
I remember doctors using pay phones to call back to the surgery and mobile phones as big as suitcases. I remember the dumb green and black terminals of the first version of EMIS, asking what a ‘website’ was, using AltaVista as a search engine, …