Speakout Street Interviews 11

H = Hina     W1 = 1 woman etc.     M1 = 1st man etc.

H:     I love technology. I enjoy reading about new gadgets and I spend a lot of money on technology. I couldn't live without my mobile phone because I plan my life with it - or without my MP3 player because I love listening to music. How about you? How do you feel about technology?

W1:  I love technology.

W2:  For what I do, I'm probably quite a technophobe. Because I'm a designer, so I have to use a computer every day. And I only learnt how to use a computer when I was 19.

W3:  Oh, I love technology. I love computers, and I love Twitter. And I love mobile phones… I love technology.

M1:   I've got lots of gadgets. I wouldn't be...I wouldn't know what to do without my laptop.

M2:   I hate technology. I find it frightening and disturbing.

W4:  I use technology because I have to.

W5:  I am definitely not technophobe. I have learnt to love technology very much though in my job.

M3:   I love technology – a lot. You know, everything about it like new gadgets, you know, computers, things like that.

W6:  I have a mobile phone, and I do have an iPod. But I'm probably the only person I know that doesn't own my own computer.

M4:   Oh no, I have every latest gadget as it comes out.

H:     What items of technology do you have with you at the moment?

M1:   I've got my mobile phone in my pocket. And my laptop’s just in my filing cabinet. In the office over there.

W3:  I have my mobile phone with me. And my mobile phone is connected to Twitter.

W2:  I have an iPod, but it's not charged. So that's why I'm not using it.

W6:  On me at the moment, I just have my mobile - that's all.

M3:   At the moment, I have my mobile phone on me, and MP3 player.

W5:  My laptop.

W1:  Just my mobile - but I have two.

M4:   An e-book reader, and a laptop, and an iPod, and so… lots and lots of gadgets.

H:     Are there any items of technology you couldn't live without?

W1:  I couldn't live without my computer. Why not? Because I’m on it all the time. It broke down once for three weeks and I felt like my husband had left me - I’m not even married. I was devastated, so no, I couldn't live without my computer.

M1:   I couldn't live without my laptop. I could probably live without my phone. I quite like leaving it turned off for a while. But the laptop’s essential.

M3:   I really couldn't live without my iPod, my mobile phone of course. And computer, yeah, everyone needs a computer nowadays.

W6:  My phone. I think beyond that, I don’t need anything else.

W4:  My mobile phone. That would be the only one. And maybe the TV.

W3:  I don't think I could live without my mobile phone. And I couldn’t live without the computer, and I couldn't live without the Internet - because I depend on them.