For me, as a Baby Boomer, the answer is No. The reason I say that is down to the fact that appear anywhere on a street in Ballarat or even in sleepy Linton you will see young people, nay children, heads down like a Bingo participant with their iThis and iThat, their Android or their Hemorrhoid.
The wireless electronic world is sailing ahead full speed leaving us old folk floundering in their wake.
In the 70s it always pleased me to have to constantly alert my parents to the use of video recorders and cameras and even though the size of a bessa-brick they could not match todays stuff smaller than a matchbox. Now the foot is in the other shoe and I'm the one patiently being tutored in the latest mobile phone/camera/message system and/or pub quiz spoiler.
In the 70's it was 'see this lever here that says record and leave it alone until the end of the show'. Now you don't need to press a button you just tell it to and it does. Todays voice activation systems are different to mine – my old voice activation system consisted of my crying out 'Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam' very loudly.
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