An elegiac account of what has recently been lost in the digital apocalypse. But also a steadfastly enthusiastic and optimistic look at what we can regain in a post-viral, more analogue and more thoughtful world.
'Stephen Bayley is the English answer to Tom Wolfe, as suave, iconoclastic, witty, visually perceptive' Fiona MacCarthy
'He has the knack of getting ahead of everybody with values that turn out to be permanent' Clive James
'He has the attention span of an acid-crazed hummingbird hawkmoth, but when he craps, it glows' Sir Terence Conran
The joy (and depth) of this book is how Bayley has come to appreciate the spiritual value of things big and small
