note 19

‘The ‘amazing acceptance’ refers to the billions of people who have watched television around the world for the last few decades, the millions of people who ‘went online’ in the last decade and the millions of people who use mobile telephones, bank accounts, etc. The amazement is also based on the realization that when my grandmothers were born there were no cars, no radios, no airplanes, no telephones, no space programmes, no nuclear technology and not even any penicillin. I realize that there has been a conscious effort to have these technologies accepted, nevertheless, the fact that they have become so embedded in many day-to-day lives remains ‘amazing’ to me.