Smart. As do I.
What is psychologically different is that we’ve all spent the last 20-ish years in constant electronic contact with the outside world. A situation utterly foreign to our parents’ generation.
Every so often there’s a thread here about mobile phone usage & folks’ attitudes to them. A current one is:
One of the interesting observations (to me at least) in each of these threads is the small minority of folks our age who hate the idea of a mobile, whereas I find it the most convenient and most-used gizmo I own. Far handier than my microwave oven or refrigerator. To them it feels confining.
Most all our parents probably thought that way. If you’re not connected while a middle-aged person, becoming forcibly connected later feels like being nannied. It’s a very tangible reminder of growing irreversible infirmity. Me, I feel sorta naked when not connected.
I think our generation will have lots less of the stubborn “won’t wear an alarm” thinking. Though we may need that alarm disguised in the form of a simplified mobile with bigger, brighter, easier to read buttons.