Computerise

More recently, in the past five years, there has been the effort to collect, computerise, and analyse a million-word corpus of both written and spoken Singapore English.

The "Becoming Real" remix of the track adds dubby space and bleeps to the mix and computerises the draggy beat and robotises the vocals – Veronica appears to be chanting "black lesbian" over and over, which is cool.

This column is going to be about the NHS computer system – you know, that attempt to computerise everyone's medical records, which has cost such a lot of money and doesn't work.

The template was repiloted by the same four surgeons and recovery ward nurses to see if opinions and the usability of the template had improved, with the eventual aim of computerising the template.

More pertinently for the plot, another marked difference from history is that the United Kingdom of this 1982 is precociously computerised. Instead of having been hounded to death for his homosexuality, the scientist Alan Turing is thriving and lauded.