My nephew Jay said it and I agree 100% — advanced technology has isolated and left behind older folks like me and his dad. It’s made us obsolete and seemingly stupid. It isn’t just computers and cellphones — I get most of how they basically operate finally, even though it took my late sister-in-law Sheila a 2,000-mile, four-day car trip to teach me how to text.
No, I don’t desire a return to writing my columns on a typewriter like I did when I started in the ’90s, but even then it took some tough-love from friend and English teacher Mick Wiest to shame me into making the change to computer. I hated it at first, but in time a guy learns copy and paste and life is good.
Then the transition from the bulky desk computer to the laptop, so I was still making sizable strides. I wanted no part of cellphones till late sister Wanda forced one of those store-shelf ones with so many paid minutes on me. I believe they’re now referred to as “burner phones” used by murderers not wanting to be traced.
Yes, technology would have been great had it stopped at some sensible point, but it was just getting started. I wrote about the brand-new Motorola phone I didn’t want, even though nephew Rusty insist...