I do watch a lot of television divided about 50/50 between entertainment and purportedly educational stuff on the science and history channels. About 80% of my TV viewing is pre-recorded on the dvr which allows me to skip through the commercials. Of course I catch a few and I am amused by some but I am sold nothing.

I have lost about 75% of my lower body mobility and I pretty much stagger around with a cane these days. It is better than a wheelchair only because of the lousy logistics that go with a motorized chair. If my health otherwise holds out, the chair looms in the future. Anyway, I can't do the outdoor activities that I once enjoyed.

My computers are very important to me. They are my short term memory and they allow me to recall things that I have known a long time but just can't recall at any particular moment. I also conduct most of my business by computer. It would be very frustrating to live without them.

Computers are about 75% of my social life. All by rowdy friends have settled down (or died) and beyond an occasional dinner out with my dwindling group of friends. All the conversations and bull shit that I once enjoyed with my co-workers and bar buddies are now on this site, and a few other forums.

I would rather be 20-30 years younger and doing all the stuff I once did with the 20-30 years of wisdom I would bring to the process but as the saying goes there is nothing good about growing old except the alternative and I am content most of the time.

If it all went away for some apocalyptic reason, I could probably replace the TV and computers with books and painfully dragging my lazy ass out of the house more but it would have to be cold turkey. I could not cut back, any more than a drug addict can just do a little bit of drugs. As long as it is available.

I am hooked and I would miss my tech way more than I miss my ability to jog around the block.