I'm in my forties, I buy every gadget, have 3 phones, 2 digital SLRs, derive most of my home entertainment from the internet and generally feel lost if I can't

I'm in my forties, I buy every gadget, have 3 phones, 2 digital SLRs, derive most of my home entertainment from the internet and generally feel lost if I can't get online. I have a friend who's 28 who doesn't have a cell phone, doesn't have internet at home, and basically feels that life online takes away from life offline. So there's at least two anecdotal data points.