Enjoying Analog: How to Spend More Time In Real Life

I lived a third of my life before I ever touched a computer. I'm from the age of typewriters, TV antennas, and corded phones that you rushed to pick up because there was no such thing as an answering machine. When Star Wars was first out (yes, I mean A New Hope , but we just called it Star Wars because it was the only one), it stayed in theaters for over a year – and we stood in long lines to view it for the third or fifth or twelfth time, because there was no way to play a video at home. The only way to see Luke destroy the Death Star was to go with your friends and see it on the big screen. So here we are, decades after that first computer (and it was really only a primitive word processor that could also store and sort data, such as inventory or an address list). Today I carry a computer in my hand that has thousands of times more speed and millions of times more memory than those early desktops. It replaces the telephone, phone book, radio, pager, cal...