Yet far too often you are forced to realise that when you belong to a reading generation, there is a whole web or map of references, information, knowledge that you have taken for granted;
They also think they can explain the bright flash seen from the earth earlier this month: it was a meteor, though a small one that didn't get very far.
That was the reaction of a professor at MIT in 2000 upon reading the dissertation of Annabelle Gawer, now co-director of the Centre for Digital Economy at the University of Surrey.
There, I effortlessly in a dream back past the beginning of my life, to re-experience my childhood fears, such as I fear my aunt pulled my curly public hair.