re: How do old people get so disconnected with the world around them?

Not so much that as it is, they’ve seen and done things, without the “benefit “of technology that most might never have to deal with, with heavier consequences, and could do it again, and could give a shite about you punks and your “technology.”

why is it so difficult for you to understand that modern technologies that are of such importance to you don’t matter to others? You probably have no working knowledge or appreciation for rotary phones, 8 track tapes, the Sears catalog, or transistor radios. But old people do cause they grew up with them. You didn’t. Why would you think old people would care about any of the shite you listed? They don’t need it. They never had it, and it doesn’t matter to them.

When confronted with a new way of doing things, most people (at any age) don't really use it well. They try to use it to do what they always did.

For example, I knew someone who had been using chalkboards and whiteboards most of his professional life. Then along came Visio and Powerpoint. He simply kept doing what he always had done before, just with Visio and Powerpoint.

If he realized he'd made a mistake positioning something on a flowchart, did he simply select the object and drag it to the better location? Of course not, that would be a new way of doing things. No, he deleted the original object and created a new one in the desired location. "Drag and drop" didn't exist in the whiteboard world, so he didn't use it.

To reiterate - when a new technology comes up people don't try to use it innovatively. They try to use it the same way they always did before. And so over the years they become uncompetitive.

This isn't an "old people" thing, it's just that given enough decades it becomes really obvious.

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Did you happen to see OUR US Congressman interview Mark Zuckerberg? They didn’t know how the internet worked, and we expect these crooks to run our country???? Jokes on us!!!

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Still probably better than Silicon Valley tech CEOs running the country. Unless you are a Commie pinko. Oddly enough it would really bad for their companies

A lot of older people I know are on the internet all the time. My uncle is in his 80s and he uses Facebook more than teens do. He's always posting memes, videos, whatever.

Whenever I'm a senior citizen, I'm going to make an effort to not be the old guy that doesn't know about technology of the future and how amazing it is.

Many tend to get in routines that make them feel stable. They watch the same programs, and rarely keep up with the latest in pop culture, technology, fads, etc.

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TigersSEC2010

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Not sure what is complicated, but let me know what is over your head and I can explain.

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Maybe it's you who is out of touch with what is actually important in life. They are wise...put down the friggin' electronics, learn to live in the moment, and pay attention.

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Sent from your iPhone.

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but to have never even heard of them or know what they do is wild.

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My grandpa is 92
They tell the news too fast & the words across the bottom of the screen are too little to read

Over the holidays he would tell me “that brown box company is doing big business”
He got the just of the news story but doesn’t grasp what Amazon is

He’s pretty damn sharp for 92 but at his age he has no need for streaming or ordering stuff online