The look on his face touched her. She reached behind her and hit "pause" on her little MP3 player, took it out of the speaker-stand, and passed it over to him, to look at as he pleased.

"Technology and civilisation don't always go hand in hand. But sometimes—if it means that I can listen to Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt uncountable worlds and times away from when that was recorded—well, I'll take that part of the technologt, at least."