Politics, not tech, makes the world go round

A person born on the day that Apple released the first iPhone can now vote. After 18 years, we might expect

the newest version

– which came out last month – to be unrecognisable from the original. Whatever the cumulative improvements, it isn’t. But then, a car made that year wouldn’t seem out of place on today’s roads either.

Also, look at images of Nicolas Sarkozy’s election as president of France and then images of his

ride to prison

this week. Aside from the greying of the man himself, can you tell the two eras apart? Not as quickly, I wager, as you could distinguish 1989 from 2007, which is the equivalent jump in time.