There are simple pleasures in life: pleasures that cost little, that are available to everyone, and that definitely don’t need help from technology. Going for a run, for instance. Cycling to work instead of driving. Or sitting with your children by the fire and playing a family board game. But just because an activity doesn’t require technology it doesn’t mean that it couldn’t be improved by it. Stick a carbon plate in your trainers, a radar on your bike, and load up Monopoly on your games table: it’s time to explore the most exciting ways to gild the technological lily.
The first time the Luftwaffe managed to miniaturise a radar so it could fit on a plane, it caused such a panic that in 1942
