I know most baby boomers find this hard to accept or understand.
Yeah, considering they invented it and all. I mean I assume you mean baby boomer like Steve Woz, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and the rest of those start-ups like Lotus, Sega, Atari?
Really, my first web exposure was in 1986 and it was based in SF (there is a reason a huge chunk of the computer industry is here) called The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, or The WELL, (and yeah, that Whole Earth, hippies out front and right again) and we were using it to type in DOS commands over an acoustic coupler to publish Set Lists from shows, so it's not nearly as 'new' as people seem to think.
I was one of the first cell phone users I knew (though half the people I knew had one with-in six to ten months of me getting mine), I was never in one place so it fit my life. I could be a hippie, gypsy moving around and all that, and still not miss a gig. It was perfect. I'm still using the last new phone I got 6 years ago. It's just a phone. But I'm getting pangs of wanting email in the phone, so I might have to spring for a smart phone in the next year. Maybe.
MP3? Can't stand them. Just when we developed and produced near perfect sound recordings, as well as state-of-the-art equipment to play it on, everyone went out and got downgraded recordings to play through speakers the size of a dime. I still use my Sony CD player when I need to travel with something.
My laptop is really my desktop, I rarely move it except to take it on vacation with me or else to haul it out to the pool (the entire complex has Wi-Fi), in which case it's not a desktop, but a table top. But I don't need to be that much in touch. I've got machines running at home 24/7, I have them at work - where else do I really need it?
And cyber networking is all cool, but its not going to replace the real thing, because too many people can see what your saying.
My bike has very high-tech hyrdo-formed frame components, awesome gearing, hydraulic disc breaks, and all of those things make for a much better bike.
I can read a map, and most of the hiking/biking I do in the hills are the same hills I was doing that in 40 years ago, a GPS is not going to help me much.
But... The Laser Levels are beyond awesome. Really helped my life. So did power drives like my Mikata - really, it beats spending the day screwing screws.