Digitally Divided We Stand
We need to remember the people who aren’t as plugged in as we are.
I recently became acquainted with a new couple. They’re upscale, college-educated folks, both in their early 40’s. She’s a nurse and he’s a home remodeler. Successful folks by any measure. Except for one major, tragic flaw: They’re not wired.
They barely use email, don’t use the Internet much, and needed me to help them hook an iPod up to their stereo and load their digital camera’s pictures onto their computers.
It’s not that they wore their technological ignorance on their sleeves; Read more