Incitement is everything. 10 year ago my mother was very reluctant to do anything other than type and print on the computer. Then, when I was going on high school exchange one and a half continent over, and said I wasn't going to plan my life around being close to a phone for the few hours a day when timezones lined up, but I'd be sure to check my mail, she learned in a weekend and haven't let go for a second since.