What excites you about the way technology is evolving?
I suppose what excites me about the way technology is evolving is the availability of things that one had thought scarce. Whether that is actually knowledge and understanding techniques that you can have access to, it's not because one is lazy, but you can have access to things now which before took huge effort. For example entertainment, when I was growing up watching television, if you missed a program, that was it. That was absolutely it. I remember when Dr.Who first came out in the early sixties, around the time my parents moved house, in the moving, the television got broken. And we arrived at this new house and plugged in the television to watch the third ever episode of Dr.Who, and the television was dead. And I still want that moment back. I still want to go back to being the age of seven, six in fact I think, and I want to see that episode, I want to put that right! As the poet says you can never hope to recapture that first fine careless rapture, but you grew up thinking there were things that were lost. I remember seeing the first half of Suddenly Last Summer, a film based on the Tennessee Williams play, with Monty Clifton and Elizabeth Taylor and then being sent to bed. I was so upset and I used to look everyday in the newspapers for the next twenty years to see if it was going to be on television. And then videos arrived, which excited me. And then DVDs arrived, which excited me more. And then the terrifically exciting possibility of downloading a movie onto your iPod, onto your mobile phone, onto whatever device you happen to have arose. The idea that you could lose that moment is completely disappeared.
