No idea why I was drawn to an article about typewriters in the Financial Times yesterday but there ye go. It was about the German government threatening to use them for Top Secret purposes in order to prevent online hacking by American spies - a regressive but ingenious solution that will, doubtless, confound the techies but delight the makers of Tipp-Ex. Anyway, as the article (written by author Andrew Martin) progressed it became less about spying and typing and more about how artificial things, 'digital' things, are increasingly being served up to plebs like you and I while 'real' things are becoming the exclusive reserve of the super-rich. If we want to see George Clooney on a given day, we look him up on YouTube, if the super-rich want to see him, they invite him round! That type of thing. It's an interesting observation that probably has a grain or two of truth in it. But, loot aside, what in essence delineates us from the super-rich, asks Martin?" Well, we do 'modern' while they do 'classic'. There's a big difference between the two and to illustrate the point he quotes one cigar-smoking member of the latter species who recently observed that ... 'Bentley's have been hideous for years'. Classic, indeed!
Modern or classic? Let your status decide.
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