Yes indeed, I think there is a certain amount of context in living through the pre-digital and post-digital age. I think there is perhaps a disconnect of just how life was such a few short years ago. Using a payphone with coins, a restrictive corded home telephone in just one room of the house (if you were lucky enough to have one!) watching snooker on a black and white portable TV and somehow always being able to discern which were the different coloured balls, sending a hand-written letter, I miss those a lot, licking the back of the queens head, I mean a stamp of-course!
To have conceived of all this when I was a teen would have seemed miraculous.
It's a brave new world and, I'll be honest, not one I like. I'm a simple guy, not all that smart, and value simple things. I'd be happy to retreat from the world.