Log on to Cyburbia for the lowdown on the new digital frontier – the texting, social networking, instant messaging and emails we take for granted – that may be drastically changing the very structure of our lives.
James Harkin (The Guardian, Financial Times) is a lone cowboy on a mission to pin down this question. It's a searing narrative that wires together the work of crackpots, inventors and visionaries with how our digital lives have been built over 70 years, from missions to shoot down German bombers to movies like 21 Grams.
In a world where email and texting is practically electronic potty-training, what's in store in our cyber future? Will our kids think, let alone act, the same way as us?