left behind

I am left behind, apparently. That is what you are if you choose not to use 'AI', as the many consumer LLM's are labelled and purported to be these days. I wonder what the next thing I'll be left behind by will be? Anyway, I'm left behind many times over already, and I don't really care. I was left behind when the 'Internet of Things' was the thing to be using, otherwise you'd be left behind. Could never see the point, especially since I've never lived in a house big enough to need to control the lights via your phone and the internet, when physically getting there to flip the physical switch yourself took about two seconds anyway. I haven't got a 'smart speaker', I've never wanted to speak to my phone either. I've never Hey Google'd or Hey Siri'd or Hey Alexa'd. How do I live? How do I manage to navigate modern life? I don't know, but apparently I'm doing it somewhere behind everyone that does all these things as a matter of course these days. The electricity company keep phoning me.…