Mark Simpson on how young men fell out of love with the motor car In the James Bond film ‘Spectre’ Bond has a new car. An Aston Martin DB10. It looks very nice and very sleek. But it’s nothing like the DB5 that first appeared in Goldfinger, back in 1964… Read More »End of the Road For Boys’ Toys?
Mark Simpson on the epidemic of ‘techno-hypnosis’ stalking our streets Remember the Japanese Tamgotchi craze of the Noughties? Remember how we all laughed at the foolishness and childishness of the little hand-held digital pet that demanded constant attention and ‘feeding’, otherwise it would ‘die’? Well, we’ve all got one now… Read More »Smartphones & Stupid People
Martin Lindstrom writing in The NYT today (‘You Love your iPhone. Literally.’) claims to have found evidence, using fancy-pants neuro-imaging technology, that people are not ‘addicted’ to their smartphones as is commonly suggested, but rather, ‘love’ them. And not, like, ironically. Or like ‘I heart my iPhone’. But like they… Read More »Tartphones