Let me tell you a tale. A tale of two worlds. One old and wise. The other, youthful and foolish. Now, you youngins might think you have it all figured out with your fancy gadgets and Bluetooth gizmos, but let me assure you, we adults have our reasons for being wary of this ever-changing flim-flam. This so-called new technological landscape. From the time you kids were in pre-school, you were always bothering us adults with “important” things like: “I can’t believe you used the wrong meme in our family group chat!” “You shared an embarrassing filtered selfie of me on TikTok! “All my friends have robotic pets with voice recognition,…
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I’ll Show You How It’s Done Once you hit 84, maybe there are certain things you should leave alone.
It’s been more than ten years since I lost my mom. Frankly, I’m glad she’s gone. Now, before you accuse me of being a shallow, selfless, ingrate, let me explain. I loved my mom. I really did. But technology made the decade beginning in 2008 brutal for old people. First there were self-driving cars. Then came the Amazon Kindle, followed by the Mars rover and the Hadron Collider. Even I felt overwhelmed. No sooner did my mom learn how to retrieve re-runs of Bonanza using her TV remote, someone went and moved all the controls to her cell phone. Her cell phone! “Let me get this straight,” she said. “I’m…
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