I confess my bias from the get-go: I hate technology. Not all technology, I hasten to add. I don’t hate heart machines and radios, or satnavs and solar panels. 

The technology I hate is Californian, it masquerades as entertainment but it’s really a social crowbar, jimmying apart society. 

It’s owned by billionaires. It makes our lives worse not better. That’s the technology I hate: AI and social media.

If artificial intelligence was used for what its creators intended - better cancer diagnoses, improving transport and logistics, and monitoring the planet’s health - I’d be blowing party-horns. 

Instead, it’s flattening culture, killing jobs, and turning people into morons who fall in love with chatbots.

Indeed, there’s a similarity between my hatred and that of a spurned lover. 

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I’ve always thought it rather inaccurate to describe folk born from 1981 onwards - Millennials, GenZ and Gen Alpha - as ‘Digital Natives’. 

It was in my generation - GenX - that the cult of technology took root. We grew up on Ataris and ZX Spectrums; we became the first generation to work in computerised offices. 

When I joined a city newspaper in 1991 as a cub reporter, the last typewriter had just been ditched.

My generation became the tech optimists of the 1990s, proselytising about this cool new thing: the internet. 

My lot launched the first digital start-ups. Sadly, it’s now my lot ruining the world with........

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