The adventures of a wrecked ship can be pieced together from entries in its log book. The last moments of some doomed flight can be reconstructed by consulting its black box. If Dominic and I come a cropper here on the hard shoulder of the Cairo–Alexandria desert road, our iPhones will tell our story in Google searches:
23:30: ‘how do you get out of Cairo airport?’
00:07: ‘why don’t Egypt drivers use headlights?’
03:00: ‘Toyota Corolla won’t start’
03:30: ‘How to deactivate Toyota Corolla immobiliser?’
04:00: ‘Hertz...
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