Tech Nation Tour Cambridge: Exchequer Secretary`s speech
(WorldNews Politics)

Thank you for inviting me here to speak today. When I arrived in Cambridge as a fresh faced undergraduate - I know I don`t look much older now - I had just bought my first mobile phone and upon arrival was given my first email address by the university - although I couldn`t use it to email home as my parents didn`t have one. We used the old `in`/`out` markers by out names at the bottom of the staircase so you wouldn`t need to climb up several flights of stairs to discovers someone was out - it didn`t occur to us to text and there was no whatsapp. There was little discernible technology on my course - a list of lectures was printed in a giant white book like a telephone directory and we all...