Why what you buy today becomes a trap tomorrow

One advantage of being 60, you're not necessarily wiser, but you have more past contrast to draw on in your own personal experience.

As I said, when I used a mobile phone on Oxford Street in 1989, two people shouted abuse at me from passing cars. That seems obviously unimaginable today.

And what happens is these things arrive as an optional extra and then become an obligation. You can't function now without a credit card. You can't I know this is not relevant to under 16s, but you can see how the problem with social media is that to some extent you're obliged to take part.

Mhm.