…the train has stopped and there is no cellular data coverage…
The Internet has gone to sleep. Around the world power stations idle and time stops. Life is not so efficient – things take longer to happen. Children go out to play and people sink gracefully into old age not categorised as “digitally excluded”. Families begin to talk, rediscovering relationships previously unseen in the light of day.
The clock on the mantelpiece counts its interminable seconds; tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock…
…eventually the journey continues, time speeds up and normal service is resumed…