''Not unlike the open lid of Pandora’s Box, the days before internet and mobile phone technology seem an unfortunate act away. Not unlike the Great War, within a few decades, nature will have claimed all human beings who lived BTI (before the internet). Train journeys spent looking out of the window or walks home from the station unchaptered by collisions with lampposts, rucksacks or children in stationary pushchairs will be no more. Even the sounds of the street will be shut away from people by their noise-reducing headphones. All we will have left is smell. We may well evolve to be more like dogs, our noses in touch with the outside world around us more than our eyes or ears. One day we may all need guide dogs.''