Technology regression

I spoke to my uncle yesterday, he used to be a pioneer in the world of cutting edge technology. He was the first person I knew who had a computer. It was a giant 286. No Pentium, no CD drive, no nothin. But it sure did sound cool, "you mean I can insert the big floppy disk into the slot, go to Dos, type in dir/p, find the start command and then command little black and green pixels to do stuff?" He wouldn't answer because he was awfully busy with his "portable" bag phone. The topic of our call recently was about the new phone he got from work. I asked if it was an iPhone, nope, a blackberry. Who cares, geriatrics can operate those. But this was different, it was the new BB Storm, with full touchscreen. " you don't even know how to use those things". His reply... "I've already had to pull out the sim card to restart it twice after I locked it up". I think for Christmas I'm going to give a roll of quarters so in an emergency he can still make calls.