Perhaps these teenagers will be more prepared than me and my peers for the commingling of technology and romance, for they are "digital natives".
The novel seizes upon an unsung wonder in our midst, the elevator, and sings its history, its technology, its romance, adding to the novelist's solid research a scintillating pinch of sci-fi fantasy.
"To me, it's essentially the intersection of technology and romance," said Jake von Slatt, a designer in Boston and the proprietor of the Steampunk Workshop (steampunkworkshop.com), where he exhibits such curiosities as a computer furnished with a brass-frame monitor and vintage typewriter keys.
Personal butlers, bath butlers, technology butlers, romance butlers, fireplace butlers and tanning butlers.
There's an episode about the sex overload of technology killing romance, and that one is really funny and a little depressing.
There are many distractions in life, including technology and romance.
Technology is like romance.
Serafinowicz is, it seems, torn between the allure of new technology and the romance he feels for the traditional format of television.
From world champions Spain, to goal-line technology, to the romance of Tahiti's involvement, the tournament will be sure to attract the attention of football fans across the world.
This is the year that technology will kill romance.
