ALL right, everyone under the age of 40, go run around the block or something. This column is not for you.

It is for people like me, inching toward 50, who are, let us say, not technology-averse, but do not embrace it with the unquestioning love that our children do.

For them, no gadget is unnecessary, no add-on excessive, no upgrade superfluous. Now, I know this is not just a generational divide. Some people of any age  we all know a few  buy every new gizmo, the more bells and whistles and buttons, the better.

And some people in their 20s and 30s are not enamored with the high-tech side of life.

But for those of us who remember getting off the couch to change the channel, technology is not necessarily as innate a part of our lives as it is for those chronologically behind us.