JOY RIDE
WORDS: DARREN STYLES
MORGAN PLUS 8
MARKUS BIDAUX
In a world where technology moves so fast it’s on the point of catching itself, and where the likes of Apple sell us built-in obsolescence alongside annual advances (try charging this year’s iAnything with last year’s charger), what chance the thrill of the old supplanting the thrill of the new?
Very little, you’d imagine. Modern society acquires rapaciously and then dispenses rapidly, to the extent our forebears would weep at our cycle of replace rather than repair. As Holly Johnson once had it, we consume to improve our lives.