The technology is a funny thing. She has an innate ability to share thoughts, and create "experts" out of nowhere, at the risk of sexist, particularly among men.

Last week I announced casually friends that I thought of my laptop or notebook, but not yet quite figured out the exact difference between the two. The answer of "instant experts has been overwhelming, and suddenly the bottle of Pinot, we were about to be low priority.

"Do not worry,"said one, "there is absolutely no difference between them."