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The Wiki Man

When it comes to new technology, we’re all Luddites at heart

21 July 2018

9:00 AM

21 July 2018

9:00 AM

When I saw my first jogger in Wales in the early 1970s, I assumed he was running away from the police. Presumably joggers were familiar in California by then, but not elsewhere. I can’t imagine any of the characters in Goodfellas going jogging, any more than I can imagine Rick in Casablanca going to a spinning class.

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