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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Aww...fair enough. But I'll stand by it. Older people are less likely to be playing video games, watching videos, listening to mp3s etc., more likely to be retired than having a job where they want/need to use that cutting edge technology.
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Heh.
Dude: Retirees have something called
leisure time! Why
not play video games, listen to MP3s, watch videos, etc? Or did you really expect all retirees to just sit around in their wheelchairs and drool on each other? Assuming "older people" are somehow less likely to enjoy music, movies and literature than younger people is pretty silly. In fact, they probably enjoy those things a lot more than the younger generations, simply by virtue of having experienced so much more of it in their lifetimes, and therefore know so much more about quality media...
The big picture (getting
waaay back to the topic at hand) is that e-books aren't just for a few lucky and particularly sharp geeks... they're for
anybody and everybody. In fact, they will be much easier for older people to enjoy than static, font- and size-locked printed text, and even a tablet PC will be lighter, smaller and easier to carry around than a copy of the Washington Post.
The author was expressing the fact that he thinks it's okay to be a luddite... and if you want to be a luddite, that's your business. But the world moves on, and sometimes even luddites have to come around to the new way of things.