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Looking back over my previous post, I’m struck by what amazing times we live in… It’s pretty amazing that an average Joe like me can scrape together enough time to publish a blog that’s only visited by barely two-dozen people a day, let alone write paragraph after paragraph bitching about smartphones.

After finishing that entry, I flicked on the TV and came across a special about the RAF Ferry Command. In 1942, the men of Ferry Command were navigating planes of all sorts across the Atlantic – using sextants and compasses. If they missed their target airfields, or encountered a cold front no one predicted, or lost sight of the stars in cloud cover, they died. How amazing is it then, that I can hold – locked-down or otherwise – a device in the palm of my hand that will happily read out my exact position, anywhere in the world? How amazing is it that, with a few swipes and taps, I can pull up weather predictions and animated radar maps on that same little device?

I guess it’s all relative…