Long-gone are the days when an enthusiastic town-crier would deliver your news to you from the streets, crowned with an ostentatious hat and loudly flinging about a bronze bell, walking far and wide to tell local passers-by about the state of the world on any given day. The 21st century has us perpetually engaged, instead, reading about the news almost before events have taken place – and as Wifi spreads to the underground and beyond, utterly incapable of escaping it.
All the same,…
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