Conor O'Brien of Villagers: 'We're seeing extremely tribalistic thinking from all sides'
Opinion will be forever divided about when this always-on internet age began, but the launch of Google in 1998 certainly changed the world forever. In a little over quarter of a century, many aspects of our lives have become unrecognisable to our 1990s selves. The transformation is best captured by our reliance on the mobile phone — the ‘black mirror’, to borrow the title of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian drama series.