ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century
By Susan Greenfield
Sceptre £16.99, 308 pages
FT bookshop price: £13.59

Do you sometimes feel like an immigrant in your own country? If so, then maybe it’s because you are. In an IT society, only those who grew up surrounded by computers and gizmos are what author Marc Prensky has called “digital natives”. If you feel the need to refer to mobile phones, computer games, or digital cameras, you’re probably a “digital immigrant”. To the natives, these are simply phones, games and cameras.