Abstract :
THE OTHER night I had a dream, in which E&T magazine was... a train. The cover was a locomotive, the contents page a driver, news and features the carriages, and this end column of mine - erm... a braking signal light on the train´s tail! Wherever I go and whatever I do, I feel as if I am either part of a train - when, for example, standing in a supermarket queue - or am surrounded by trains, as was the case during a recent press trip to Paris as a guest of the famous Dassault Syst??mes software company.