It’s what computers have become; a marketing slogan that’s over ambitious, pretentious and painfully accurate all at once.

Most computers you could buy today are abysmally bloated, confusing monstrosities of metal and software. The Nokia N95 is the same: It crams more features into a handset than previously possible, and proceeds to make each and every [...]

A mid-thirties woman, with a skirt too short and cigarette hanging weakly from her lips, is wedging a closing train carriage door open with a high-healed foot. She’s struggling as the doors push to close. All so that her knife-scarred boyfriend can force two pinches of tobacco into her purse.

Maybe it was just the dimming [...]