It is said that every invention or innovation is an amputation. We gain something only at the loss of something else. We see this throughout history no more so than with the industrial revolution. The invention of the internal combustion engine brought many benefits but also many losses – a relationship with your horse for one!

Today we hand over so much when we become dependent on the internet or on the digital world in general. Of course it is all a tremendous resource and tool set but we need to guard against abdication. We have an astonishingly powerful internal computer that can work at incredible speeds but it needs to be regularly used !