if you’re really that much of a technophobe, it comes with a remote control that behaves no differently than that of your living room DVD player. The jury’s still out on watching movies on such small screens (7 inches in this case), but if it’s the future this is a user-friendly first step.

Ironically it’s science that has given us the means for art, culture and economics. But according to The Science Delusion, we should think twice before making it our only worldview.

It’s been about as successful as e-books — adopted by a narrow fringe of users, something the majority of us see as a cute novelty but dismissed as too cumbersome.Perhaps it’s the collective Luddite in us.