In 1996, the world was clicking itself into a new socioeconomic paradigm. Huddled behind bulky CRT screens, suddenly familiar ‘browsers' invited us to navigate a World Wide Web.

Walk into a store and the shouting quickly starts. Look, touch smell, buy! I’ll be your best toaster, my suds smell like an Alp spring, your feet will float in wisps of clouds, listen to my engine roar.

As random and chaotic as life often is, we can be both thankful and maybe slightly terrified (in a mystified, what does it all mean kind of way) to know that the universe has constants.