Latest Breaking News

(the "Depression" generation - those who were kids during the 1930s) are NOT computer literate. There may be a handful but for the most part, they had already come through an era when there was no television and gradually adapted to that as teens and young adults. Using something portable like a transistor radio, calculator and *maybe* working a flip cell phone was about as far as they would go. They even went through a time when (as my mom would say) - "phones were mainly used for emergencies" and many were in households that had party lines. And this was all the urbanites. The rural elderly had little or no phone service at all.

My mom passed away 10 years ago this year and would have been 95 this year. She was reticent to try my iPad back then and quickly lost interest (and years before, was flummoxed by my laptop).