Kraftwerk's retrospective at the Tate, dubbed The Catalogue, is described as a "chronological exploration" of the reclusive group's "sonic experiments".
Self-obsessed citizen scientists who use gadgets like the FitBit and Up by Jawbone to track their own health data and engage in groupexperiments online have piqued media interest of late.
Experiments by Michael Morris, an academic at Stanford Business School, and a groupof colleagues have now demonstrated what many people instinctively suspect: negotiations are more likely to go well if they are conducted, at least in part, face to face, rather than between strangers armed with keyboards and screens.