Time to confess

Have you become dependent on technology you believed unnecessary when it was first launched?
CDs were soulless anathema to an avid collector of vinyl records like me, but I gave in after a few years and now own them by the hundred.When mobile phones appeared in the 1980s most of us felt they were much too big and expensive.
Personally, the idea of being on call day and night felt profoundly disturbing. Today I carry one everywhere and embarrass my children by not having one of the latest over-complicated models.
Then there was the home computer. Why have one in the house when your work PC is on 50 hours a week?
Who wants to spend precious relaxation time staring at another computer monitor?
Alas, I gave in a year ago and sit sadly in the dining room at night emailing relatives and Googling for answers to obscure questions.
But I remained resolute on two items of modern technology: sat-nav (who needs a computer when there is a map in the car?) and electronic books (they are no substitute for the feel and pleasure of the real thing).
But, time to confess, at the weekend I read one of the latter in an A5 stainless steel box with a natty little screen.I was tempted to buy, mainly because it contained Michael Parkinson’s autobiography, but declined firmly – for now.
Philip Welch