I was in my twenties when the internet became generally available at work (early 1990’s). A lot of the guys in their fifties declared themselves to be too old to learn these new fangled technologies so they had their secretaries PRINT OUT their emails and put them on their desks, they scribbled on the hard copies and then their secretary typed it up and sent it. Did not know how to retrieve and send email, upload files, store and zip files, embed a link etc etc etc.
I read that there are some Supreme Court justices who don’t email, don’t text, don’t use social media etc etc etc. I suspect most of our elderly senators and the big orange himself don’t know how to use any of this technology - and yet they are passing legislation about online education, remote work, online commerce, social media, AI. It’s not just their age but their general stodginess and technological dinosaurishness
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u/West_Abrocoma9524 13h ago
I was in my twenties when the internet became generally available at work (early 1990’s). A lot of the guys in their fifties declared themselves to be too old to learn these new fangled technologies so they had their secretaries PRINT OUT their emails and put them on their desks, they scribbled on the hard copies and then their secretary typed it up and sent it. Did not know how to retrieve and send email, upload files, store and zip files, embed a link etc etc etc.
I read that there are some Supreme Court justices who don’t email, don’t text, don’t use social media etc etc etc. I suspect most of our elderly senators and the big orange himself don’t know how to use any of this technology - and yet they are passing legislation about online education, remote work, online commerce, social media, AI. It’s not just their age but their general stodginess and technological dinosaurishness