I'm actually sympathetic to your argument, but the author himself says this in the early paragraphs: "but the piece of technology I would be most reluctant to

I'm actually sympathetic to your argument, but the author himself says this in the early paragraphs: "but the piece of technology I would be most reluctant to give up, the one that changed my life from the first day I used it, and that I’m still reliant on every waking hour—am reliant on right now, as I sit typing—dates from the thirteenth century: my glasses."