Boomers: Computers, Internet, and Old Age
Here's something else for Boomers to think about besides hearing aids (see below): old age. But I'm not talking about creaky bones, and catarrh in the morning. I'm talking about the future you don't want to talk about.When you have visited your parents or older relatives in nursing homes, I know you've seen the sleepers-in-their-chair, the starers-out-the-window.
While you still have enough time, begin to insulate yourself against this kind of future. IF you are not computer literate--become so. And quickly. IF you are a bit computer literate--become moreso. And quickly.
Your nursing home future, providing of course it is only physical infirmities which have put you there, will be rich indeed. The Internet will freely give you all of these and more:
Interest Groups, News, Book Reviews, Online Games (esp. Poker for play money), Research Potential, and on and on. Only limited by your own imagination.
So start now! Force yourself to take a course, collar a geeky relative, or brute force it yourself, but do it. Become VERY Internet literate as soon as you possibly can. You will never be bored again.
2007-05-13 10:49:09
(1) comments :
Ellen P.
Couldn't agree more- I'd already thought this.2007-05-19 07:57:43