Wikipedia says there are ~350,665 Old Order Amish (apparently in the New World? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish#cite_note-Elizabethtown_...).

This is not an exaggeration. Nowadays basically anything you buy that uses electricity also has chips included for various purposes. Those chips of course run proprietary software.

Sure, but I'd meant live in the modern world in the sense of living in tech-enabled society, rather than just living in the current day.

I've read that he borrows people's phones.