Rt Rev David Walker

The 18th century is not just age of revolution, exemplified by American independence and Napoleon's France. It is also a period of great science advancement, huge leaps were made in human understanding of nature world around us. Things had previously being assumed to be random, or acts of god discovered to be the effects of universal laws, often expressible in terms of mathematical formula. On the basis of these laws, it became possible not only understand the presence, but predict what might happen in the future.

Imagine a group of people trying to hold a face to face conversation are suffering all the disruptions that are frustration features of video call, a dog barks over one’s speech, another repeatedly rejected from the room, a third try to make a comment that lips move but the words remain muted. During lockdown I can spend hours of each day in virtual conferences, so when I saw the sketch described in social media last weekend, I laughed out alone.