We put too much faith in modern gizmos, says Robert Vamosi in When Gadgets Betray Us – but techno-symbiosis is older and more complicated than he admits
ONE evening in February 2007, a student named Paula Ceely brought her car to a halt on a remote road in Wales. She got out to open a metal gate that barred her path. That’s when she heard the horn sounded by the driver of the Pembroke Dock to Swansea train. Her Renault Clio was parked across a railway line. Seconds later, she watched the train drag her car almost a kilometre down the…
