"Rather we want people to actively set social and physical bounds around the use of technologies and not just fatalistically accept the direction technology is heading in, " he wrote.
Ever since RIM announced the launch date of the first BB10 devices, investor enthusiasm has grown in leaps and bounds, dimmed only to an extent by a set of disappointing third quarter results RIM announced last month.
Catalan nationalists are drawing up a new one which, despite Mr Carod-Rovira's populist harangues, will, according to Catalonia's Socialist premier, Pasqual Maragall, remain within the boundsset by the 1978 text.