What did we all do with our time before the internet came along and absorbed every drab second of our existence, thereby cultivating our Tuesday evenings and Sunday afternoons into joyous and productive periods, set apart and fully utilised?

Life without the pitter patter of keys or the clunk of the track-pad is, from my own experience this week, filled with the mother of all time wasting devices, TV.

Nothing too spectacular then. It seems life without the internet just propels us toward another box, this time with less options and less specific, but all the more infuriating, adverts, presented back-to-back, not just 30 seconds before a YouTube clip.

The transition to life before television was not too dissimilar to that of life before the internet. That box of tricks, the wireless, was the be all and end all. What is our fascination, as humans, with a box which provides all our entertainment, be it a computer, a television, a radio, or even a window? There isn’t anything like the day dream out a window to keep one’s mind from boredom.

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