This is one reason why, over the last two years, Ive devoted a fair share of columns to the friction between the stories we tell about tech and its actual unfolding in our lives. From the surreptitious to the , via and the , I love exploring the tensions between digital tools and analogue selves not because technology is to be dismissed or deplored, but because it remains as mired in history, politics and human frailty as everything else we touch.