The most dangerous aspect of a technological revolution is rarely the technology itself. It is the illusion that access to that technology will remain permanent.
For much of the past three decades, countries such as Nigeria have operated within a world whose underlying architecture appeared remarkably stable. The most advanced technologies were usually developed elsewhere, but they eventually became available everywhere. Whether one lived in London or Lagos, New York or Nairobi, the broad direction of travel was the same. The frontier moved
