So almost everything you do on the internet needs a phone and in some cases a smart phone
I don't think this is fair to the older generations
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
How old does one have to be before one counts as part of the older generations? I'll be 70 this year and I've been involved with computers since 1969 when I was 14; all of my adult life. Am I suddenly going to find myself unable to use my laptops, mobiles, and tablets when I hit 70?
Computers, the Internet, and the Web have been available for over thirty years now, that's a generation. I have been using online banking, for instance, since the days of dial-up access over thirty years ago.
Anyone under the age of ninety was only middle aged, certainly of working age, when computers, internet, and mobile phones were taking off.
Someday we will have to confront the idea that it is neither age nor technology that is the problem but lack of humanity in the system, lack of willingness to treat people as fellow humans instead of mere income streams.
Computers, the Internet, and the Web have been available for over thirty years now, that's a generation. I have been using online banking, for instance, since the days of dial-up access over thirty years ago.
Anyone under the age of ninety was only middle aged, certainly of working age, when computers, internet, and mobile phones were taking off.
Someday we will have to confront the idea that it is neither age nor technology that is the problem but lack of humanity in the system, lack of willingness to treat people as fellow humans instead of mere income streams.
What's not fair to the older generation is taking away all the methods they used to use to get things done and forcing them into the digital age. These are the people most likely to be left behind.
Even now, we have job seekers aged 40 and above who can't fill out a check box on a government website to notify their work adviser that they have applied for a job... then they are sanctioned because they haven't shown that they've done enough to look for work. It's all written down on paper what they have done.
Even now, we have job seekers aged 40 and above who can't fill out a check box on a government website to notify their work adviser that they have applied for a job... then they are sanctioned because they haven't shown that they've done enough to look for work. It's all written down on paper what they have done.
Matt85 · 36-40, M
@HootyTheNightOwl 🤦🏾 they need to get on that
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@Matt85 I'll point out that it was our utility payments that stretched out all those copper and fiberoptic lines. Lines capable of 1Mhz of bandwidth that once ran into the back of our dial up home phones.
Lines that the telcos now snatched away from all of us to give over to gargantuan operators like Google and Facebook to exercise total control of squashing speech, creating policy changes with bot storms to look like crowd concensus. Billions of dollars a week in revenues while they still take in a c note a month from us just to have a tiny little 127m baud commercial ad plagued, spam crowded mess.
Typical. The uber riche wrecks another promising way to create a better world.
Radio became propaganda. TV, mind rot. And now internet is little more than a place to get a dopamine fix and think you know something.
Lines that the telcos now snatched away from all of us to give over to gargantuan operators like Google and Facebook to exercise total control of squashing speech, creating policy changes with bot storms to look like crowd concensus. Billions of dollars a week in revenues while they still take in a c note a month from us just to have a tiny little 127m baud commercial ad plagued, spam crowded mess.
Typical. The uber riche wrecks another promising way to create a better world.
Radio became propaganda. TV, mind rot. And now internet is little more than a place to get a dopamine fix and think you know something.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
No. Only the stubborn ones who refused to accept that a home computer and internet connection was needed as early as the mid nineties as even now still refuse to learn or buy in.
I studied the kernels tables and tcp of the systems commonly in use and recommended successfully to almost everyone I know to get at least a laptop or a smartphone early in this 21st century.
As for us "old boomers" being unable to deal with everything from vcr clock resets to an HDMI connection or Bluetooth may make the youthful genex and millennial (lotta dopers and gameheads) feel good about themselves but it's always just been one more fake news media fed political insult designed to trick stupid people.
I was born in 1955.
Picked up my first home computer earlier than most, 1983.
My first DSL internet line was in 96.
By then I owned 15 laptops, several servers and a slew of pre smart cell phones. I still despise texting. It's rife with opportunities for bad communication, tedious, and not often needed. Social media is mostly a pointless time vampire for most people. And mostly because the owners of it are deleting videos, censoring content, and manipulating popularity.
Ooh but you could make money!!!!
Rarely. And only if you're very careful with what you
That email is never going to replace postal document or product delivery is obvious.
You know... by 2005 ordinary working people started putting Lan intranet systems for everything from security cams around the house or taking the laptop out in the backyard. TVs and cars have been adding bt phone links and 360 view screens in premium cars, at least for 5 years now.
I get that not everyone can afford these things but claiming they are out of loop
borders on comedic.
I studied the kernels tables and tcp of the systems commonly in use and recommended successfully to almost everyone I know to get at least a laptop or a smartphone early in this 21st century.
As for us "old boomers" being unable to deal with everything from vcr clock resets to an HDMI connection or Bluetooth may make the youthful genex and millennial (lotta dopers and gameheads) feel good about themselves but it's always just been one more fake news media fed political insult designed to trick stupid people.
I was born in 1955.
Picked up my first home computer earlier than most, 1983.
My first DSL internet line was in 96.
By then I owned 15 laptops, several servers and a slew of pre smart cell phones. I still despise texting. It's rife with opportunities for bad communication, tedious, and not often needed. Social media is mostly a pointless time vampire for most people. And mostly because the owners of it are deleting videos, censoring content, and manipulating popularity.
Ooh but you could make money!!!!
Rarely. And only if you're very careful with what you
That email is never going to replace postal document or product delivery is obvious.
You know... by 2005 ordinary working people started putting Lan intranet systems for everything from security cams around the house or taking the laptop out in the backyard. TVs and cars have been adding bt phone links and 360 view screens in premium cars, at least for 5 years now.
I get that not everyone can afford these things but claiming they are out of loop
borders on comedic.
