I am sure we all have experience of news articles telling us that there is a new bit of technology guaranteed to make our lives in to some kind of Utopian existence. The new gadget to save you time, the new home appliance to halve the amount of work you need to do. And yet, technology is also sometimes thought of as a nuisance, something that interferes rather than helps.
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