When ‘ digital ’ came to town

I still remember the Christmas my sister was given one of the very first computer games as a gift from our parents. Plugged into our television it allowed us to play a virtual game of tennis, batting what I now know to be a collection of pixels against the sides of the screen, so it bounced randomly around. I must have been about 11 at the time and I still recall the recognition that something fundamental had changed about the world I lived in, although it was to be several decades later that I was able to articulate it in a way that made sense. That Christmas morning was a turning point; not just for me, but for all humanity. We didn’t recognise it as such, it was after all just a child’s game. But those who saw it for what it was recognised change was on the horizon and we would need a way of living in a new era defined by technology that would become so ubiquitous it would literally take over our lives, and perhaps even us. That change is upon us and if we aren’t to be swept away entirely, we must find a way to reassert what it means to be human in an age of advancing and encroaching technical development. It would be easy to assume from this statement that I see the world of technology in a poor light, and yet nothing could be further from the truth. After all, I have spent the best part of three decades working in this world and recognise the value it presents daily to billions of people worldwide. However, I have also come to recognise that it also has the capacit...
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