Patience is a virtue. It’s also one that’s in increasingly short supply in a world where it’s possible to summon a stranger on a bike to deliver a pint of ice cream to your house at any given moment. Who needs to possess something as staid as ‘patience’ when instant gratification exists at the touch of a button?

Well, seasons change and so do trends. Last year David Sax penned a New York Times column titled Our Love Affair With Digital Is Over. Sax argued that there exists a growing ‘mistrust’ of the technology that was once heralded as the answer to all our prayers. Our handheld computers were meant to help us; instead they’ve spawned a mass behavioural addiction that has been found to actively increase depression and anxiety. And so, Sax said, we’ve kick-started an analogue revolution to try and restore equilibrium between the digital worlds we haunt like virtual ghosts, and the physical world that we abandoned for the alluring blue light of our screens.

Why 2018 will be the year we discover the luxury of waiting