[SoftTalker]

There's an older guy at my office who often says "if you don't want to do something, don't learn how" and I think this attitude is common. It's not that they can't learn this smartphone stuff, they just don't want to use it.

[this_user]

That's their choice, but they also choose to suffer the consequences. Expecting the world to cater to your needs specifically is such a typical boomer attitude and should no longer be tolerated.

[SoftTalker]

And, expecting people who are happy with what they already have and have already paid for to switch to your newer, more complicated, more expensive system so that your numbers go up is another attitude that should not be tolerated.

[raw_anon_1111]

I am sure that you also think they should have a place for his horses to feed because he doesn’t want to deal with a car.

[SoftTalker]

Horses, no. That would impose quite a lot on everyone else. But walking, or taking the bus, vs. owning an expensive personal transportation device... yes.

[mwigdahl]

While we're at it, let's get rid of the ADA. Those disabled people expecting the world to cater to their needs specifically are so abusive to those of us with perfectly functional bodies and flexible minds.

[crazygringo]

There's a big difference between legislating accomodations for people who physically can't do something, vs. those who can but choose not to.

The former makes sense. The latter doesn't. I don't get to park in handicapped spaces that are closer to the store just because I'd like to.

[raw_anon_1111]

The ADA forces reasonable accommodations. It doesn’t mean that car manufactures have to build cars for blind people.

[the_other]

Using a battery powered electronic device as a “pass” detected by another handheld electronic device, both of which are contacting cell towers, exchanging data with data centres 100s of kms away, filling out detailed profiles of user behavior … rather than a paper ticket?

[EvanAnderson]

You will be the "boomer" some day. I wish people had more empathy.

An example: Presbyopia came on hard for me in the last couple of years Now I really appreciate low-vision affordances that, as a younger person, I couldn't have cared less about and would have seen as an unnecessary cost.

[budman1]

I used to laugh about the 'picture signs'; like the universal nose in book sign that means library. Or the airport logo on the exit sign on the freeway.

Until I spent some time in a country whose predominate language (and signage) was not english.

Maybe those pictorial signs are a good idea after all.

[ryandrake]

Exactly.

When OP is 85, I hope some whippersnapper 20 year old says to him, "Come on, grandpa. You need to get that neural advertisement brain implant like the rest of us, or you can't buy anything. Why should businesses need to support your lame smartphone? Step into the 22nd century, pops!"

[reaperducer]

No need to wait until 85. Just slip on something at the age of 22 while playing a quick game of basketball and blow out a knee.

Suddenly you start seeing and using all the wonderful ADA affordances that have been installed in plain sight all around you.

[booleandilemma]

Learn how to use whatever shitty technology is being pushed onto the masses or die, yes, that's the right attitude for sure.