What do I miss about technology most? Match of the Day and my parents’ voices | Mark Boyle

When I’m tired or busy I think about the convenience and sugarcoated allure of the life I left behind. Then I think about its costs, and I’m glad I’m doing what I am

• Writer Mark Boyle has lived without technology since December 2016

These are strange times. I remember once, a few months before I rejected industrial-scale technology, searching online for an image of an old, disregarded variety of apple. Hoping to make a positive identification, I instead encountered a screen dominated by the trademark logo of the Apple corporation. Taken aback, I typed in blackberry and orange to see what would happen. I was offered mobile phone deals. I hadn’t heard of Tinder at the time, but I suspect the indications of wood shavings, birch bark and bracken wouldn’t monopolise your page.

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