Suddenly GPS popped up everywhere else. Now getting lost is no longer an option, except in technology.

Leunig's quiet, witty, critical dig at technology that shapes our everyday lives. It makes a welcome contrast to the 'all technology is wonderful' school; or the 'must have that' school; or the 'technology as toy' school. It is a critique of the desire for the technological geewhiz symbols of status s
that are embedded in our lives.

This deflates the glamour that entices our desires for something that we don't actually need; or struggle to make work properly. Plug in and Play sure is a misnomer----judging by my experience of both computers and getting a HD digital receiver to work through an LCD screen that is plugged into a stereo system. Our experience of the latter in Victor Harbor this Xmas is that we have to get people out to make the different components work as a unit.

I also constantly struggle with getting different components to work re both my work office and office of Encounter Studio, even though I try to keep things as simple as possible. I read Wired magazine as technological dreaming.