BRAVE NEW WORLDS

Founded in 1841, Wynberg Boys’ High School sits in a leafy suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. It’s a school with a rich sporting heritage with many international cricketers and rugby players among its alumni – most notably Jacques Kallis, considered to be one of the best cricketers of all time. An Eddy Merckx in whites. In the hallways there is an honours board with Kallis’s name among the long list of notables.

In the mid-1990s 13-year-old Aaron Borrill, now tech editor at sister publication , looked up at that wall forlornly. “My sport was cricket; I discovered very early on I wasn’t good enough for that,” he explains. “I look up at this thing and I didn’t think I would ever get my name on this board. There’s Jacques Kallis and all these crazy names of famous sports stars, and now my name is going on there… If somebody told me right then that 26 years later, when you’re approaching 40, you’re going to go on that, I wouldn’t have thought it would be possible. It just shows that you’re never too old to achieve something.”