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The computer industry is missing a serious bet. Because we geezer geeks aren’t just coming, we’re already here. Our ranks swell daily. Pretty soon — you read it here first — there’ll be an AARP recruiting booth at the Mac and PC fairs; they’re too savvy to ignore such a trend. Now hear this: The time to start planning Geezer Geek Expo has arrived. […] Trust me on this: The AARP — the American Association of Retired Persons — knows where you live. I don’t care how out of the loop, insignificant, or well-hidden you think you are; turn fifty in the U.S. of A. and, within a week of your birthday, you’ll receive by mail your first of many […] Yet if something we’d agree to call community results from the Internet and the Web and their evolution, I don’t expect it to be a tribal form of community — people bonded for life, living side by side, intimately involved, standing back to back permanently against their enemies. I predict it’ll be more like the looser connectedness that the agora encourages, a varied mix of people coming from all over, a context for the barter and exchange of goods, ideas, skills, energies. […] |