Opinion: A future without smartphones?

Let me say at the outset that I hate smartphones. But, I’m not a complete technophobe. I’ve had computers for 45 or more years. My hybrid car probably has more embedded computers than I have functioning neurons in my brain. And when I get ready to forward this column to the newspaper, I’ll do so via email. 

Moreover, I have a lifetime credential to teach “Computers and Related Technologies” at the college level, and did so from 1980 until 1984 when the DEC PDP-1170, which was used as a mainframe, was replaced by a few hundred desktop computers. That’s when I stopped teaching Computer Data Processing and Programming in BASIC. Now, I’m practically computer illiterate.

What in the wide, wide world of sports was the State of California thinking when it issued me a “lifetime” certificate?