A 45-Year-Old Scolds Tech Companies!

Geezers don’t despair. Younger people feel it, too!

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“Tech is now for all of us, and yet the tech companies keep focusing on the nerds who want fancy gadgets.”

Other than the fact that she starts out by apologizing for sounding like “a grumpy old man” (ageist stereotype)…

I was thrilled to read New York Times tech columnist Shira Ovide’s article, “Tech Forgets About the Needs of the 99%.”

Shira is 45. And in the piece, she quotes a 2019 article by another young guy, 42-year-old Nilay Patel, “Everything’s Too Complicated.”

I’ve been hesitant to admit my own frustrations. But when I’ve allowed myself to let it rip, my contemporaries leave reassuring comments. A different kind of “me-too” movement?

Technology and the Vulnerable

So it turns out, I was right. It’s isn’t just grumpy old men and frumpy old women.