Dongles, hotspots and tethering - challenging the technophobe stereotype isn't easy

TUESDAY, 1pm, Cork city. I am here to replace my laptop; I can cope with the foreplay no longer; all the selfish technological petting it has demanded of me ever since the day I got it. 

I’m hoping, today, that I might not have to replace my Nokia Brick phone, for not once has it demanded any foreplay and yet it has given me nothing but deep satisfaction for years. But I may be forced to; something to do with a dongle, a hotspot, and tethering, whatever that means.

“But I am determined,” I think, as I cross the road, “to challenge the worn old stereotype that anyone born before 1970 can’t understand technology. And I am not going to let the fact that I don’t understand technology get in my way.