IT HAS replaced the humble notepad as the author’s tool of choice, but prolific writers hunched over laptops are beginning to suffer for their art.

Millions told to check in computers and tablets

In the mid-1970s computers were still vast intimidating machines found mainly in university laboratories. It was an esoteric world, tended by white-coated boffins translating paper streams of mathematical data loudly spewing out.

Modern businesses require a lot of data in order to function properly. Thankfully, advances in technology have made it easy for businesses to collect and store data online. While this can be a blessing