Hi, All.
What originally prompted me to start Aging in the Digital Age was the extraordinary lives those of us who are 65+ have lived, and I wanted to discuss both the positives and the negatives of our collective experience. Had the post I’m including in this post been written last summer, I would have put it in my first post because it covers so much of how I was feeling about the unique, drastic societal change that the current older generation has lived through and how we have adapted to it (or not). And I was interested in how you are feeling about the unique changes that you have had to adjust to.
A piece that elegantly describes the trajectory of our lives was posted on Facebook and copied into many Facebook posts. It’s long, so I’m not going to put it here, but I’m pasting the url for it (see “click here” below). The one thing it omitted is the change in the status of women, gender reassignment, and robots. That change has had a huge impact on our lives and how we will live in a future that seems to be accelerating faster with each day.
I hope you will read it and give me your take on it. For example, how does the piece make you feel about our generation? Has it changed your feeling about being older? Are there things that were important in our analog lives that continue to be important now? What occurs to you after reading it? Etc.
Happy April
Julie
One Response
I can’t help but feel that it’s a great loss to move into a world of digital, lightning-fast communication that we can barely digest before another bit comes into view. And now with AI here, I fear there will be less and less study of great thinkers, less and less pondering; wondering; sharing and discussing of ideas
–practices that, in my view, are essential to wisdom.