In a future world without aeroplanes, children would gather at the feet of old men, and hear extraordinary tales of a mythic time when vast and complicated machines the size of several houses used to take to the skies and fly high over the Himalayas and the Tasman Sea.
A lot of other things transpired when volcanic ash blanketed Europe. For example, we discovered you could run a country while stuck at an airport with your iPad. And hundreds in my social networks got work done through online video conferencing.
