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We can no longer pretend there is a proper place and a proper occasion for politics. Robert Sobukwe

One thinks of the quaintness of the tv series The Wire, in which the Baltimore police are preoccupied with intercepting the pagers of the city’s drug dealers. It wasn’t until episode 12 that the first cell phone was introduced. And this was eight years ago!

Gareth Jones, LSE Professor of Geography, commenting on the pace of technological innovation.