Digital

By Edward Haigh

My frequent trips across the North Atlantic over the last year or so have served to illustrate many things: it really ought to be simpler, by now, to get from Kennedy airport into Manhattan; Texas has more private medical centres than cowboys; you don’t need a whole Chicago deep-pan pizza to yourself; technology rules.

A packed train from Manchester to London and no room to type, an iPad stowed in my bag (carefully sneaked out of the house before the children awoke) and an email alerting me to the arrival of a new edition of a business magazine meant I spent over an hour last week (once I’d cleaned off the sticky fingerprints) browsing the latest thinking at McKinsey Quarterly.