Technology’s promise to connect the world has succeeded in isolating and
debilitating it’s inhabitants. Strong bonds have been replaced with weak links and
a vague sense of loss sits awkwardly alongside the claims of advancement. It’s
confusing.

The experience is analogous to aging which comes to everyone as a shock, some-
time after the fact, provoking evermore desperate remedial measures in an attempt
to regain lost vitality.

But, like the frogs in the frequently quoted experiment, we realise too late that the
water has become deadly hot.

When did the apocalypse happen? What caused it? Is there anything we can do
about it?

There is something tragic but deeply human about the effort we make in the face
of our predicaments. And in each case our answer is the same: more P.E.

John Clark

February '24