Murder in House
“Diana had given Ellie a brand-new, all-speaking, all-dancing mobile for Christmas, so her old mobile was, in theory, redundant.
All that was true. What was also true was that Ellie was frightened silly by the new instrument, which was sleek and slender and would show you television programmes and doubtless also put you in touch with the moon and the stars, if you so wished. There were so many functions on it that you needed a degree in further mathematics even to turn it on.
Her old phone also ...had a lot of programmes she had never learned how to access, but she did at least know how to make a phone call on it, and how to switch it on to receive one, though texting was still a foreign language. And, in fact, she’d still gone on using it to this day.
How would it be if she sent Ursula the new one? The girl would probably be able to master its intricacies in ten minutes, whereas Ellie knew that she’d never get beyond ‘the cat sat on the mat’ stage in a hundred years.
Diana had said that Ellie must learn to live in today’s world, face up to the new technology, and embrace the opportunities it offered.MoreLess
All that was true. What was also true was that Ellie was frightened silly by the new instrument, which was sleek and slender and would show you television programmes and doubtless also put you in touch with the moon and the stars, if you so wished. There were so many functions on it that you needed a degree in further mathematics even to turn it on.
Her old phone also ...had a lot of programmes she had never learned how to access, but she did at least know how to make a phone call on it, and how to switch it on to receive one, though texting was still a foreign language. And, in fact, she’d still gone on using it to this day.
How would it be if she sent Ursula the new one? The girl would probably be able to master its intricacies in ten minutes, whereas Ellie knew that she’d never get beyond ‘the cat sat on the mat’ stage in a hundred years.
Diana had said that Ellie must learn to live in today’s world, face up to the new technology, and embrace the opportunities it offered.MoreLess
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