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by AJ007
4532 days ago
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It says 5% of "farms" ; is that farmers, farms, farm hands? The farming automation stuff happening now is fascinating. I saw a piece on Bloomberg or somewhere similar that had old farmers just sitting in a room monitoring their equipment on computers. Edit: another note in terms of "old" people using computers -- the guys that are in their 70s now were in their late 30s and 40s when the IBM PC was released in 1981. I think the abilities of the 65+ market are under estimated both by younger people and the older people themselves. Modern interfaces just tend to be designed very poorly for people who poorer eye sight, hearing, and so on. |
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And they were using them back then then too. Growing up in the early 80s on a farm, I don't remember any farming families that didn't have a computer in the home. It was an essential tool.