A survivor’s guide to pods and blogs…

Resistance is futile, the technological revolution is upon us. But there are ways to keep your sanity in the maddening maze of 21st-century gadgetry, writes ED POWER

John Breslin, founder of Boards.ie

“Technology finds all sorts of ways to get on my nerves. For instance, it really bugs me the way Microsoft Word corrects things I don’t want it to (I know there may be options to turn it off, but sometimes it don’t work).

“It also annoys me that I can send but not receive SMS messages on my PC (I don’t have a mobile phone). And I dislike websites that insist on a postcode for Ireland, or supposedly smarter ones that tell you that a particular postcode doesn’t exist in Ireland.

“My all-time least favourite, I suppose, is when you type in a form on the web and click on to the next stage, only to find there’s some error or it times out and you go back only to have to fill it all in again.”

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