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Long life

I was forced on to the internet in the 1980s. I still don't belong there

The downside is that readers now have the ability to challenge my every statement

1 March 2014

9:00 AM

1 March 2014

9:00 AM

With regard to modern technology, I find that people of around my age — by which I mean people in their seventies or over — are divided into two camps. There are those who have embraced the digital revolution with embarrassing enthusiasm, knowing much more about it than it is decent to know; and then there are those who, almost as embarrassingly, take pride in knowing nothing about it whatsoever.

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