RE: The Great Digital Pause

I'm not asking people to ditch the net forever with the pause.

There are some people who should be barred from the Internet on a permanent basis, though, for sure :D

My mother only has her mobile phone. She doesn't use the Internet on it. She just texts and calls. And listens to FM radio on it. She doesn't even have a bank card. Heck, she doesn't even have a TV. She reads books and asks me a lot of questions for entertainment.

Her frustration at the lack of options to not use digital tech will only grow as time goes on. I've tried to teach her, but she is simply not able to learn. The most technology she probably used was a type-writer and a telephone.

Sure we had a VCR, Tapes, and Vinyls growing up, but it was always my father and I who would operate those things.

For people like her, a world without digital stuff is an everyday reality, and life works just fine. So, technically, it could work for us, if we were willing to sacrifice some of those comforts.