WHEN the geeks of Silicon Valley told us about the oncoming revolution around 20 years’ ago, they said technology would make our lives easier and more enriched. The many gadgets and gizmos they were developing in Californian garages and science parks would allow us to have more leisure time. Technology would bring more precision to our lives and eradicate the mundane. Anyone who disagreed with this sentiment was labelled a luddite, “too old” or “stuck in the mud”. It is true that technology has changed our lives, but for so many inventions, the real beneficiaries have been the people inventing the tech and those whose skill-sets cannot be replaced by machinery or those who have been educated in the new ways. Eradication of the…