[LINK] Affordable Internet in Australia for low-income families ? Never happen...

[jim birch]

Older people often need a good reason to get connected and may be quite
happy without it.  Looking across my parents generation many are regular, or
even avid, computer users but quite a few otherwise competent people just
aren't interested.

My father never owned or used a pc despite being a highly technical person,
for example, he developed the Australian weather radar network working at
the BOM.  He would have retired about the time when pcs surged onto the
desktop, so his staff may have had them but he never did.  I never worked
out exactly why he never took it up but I guess he was happy enough and busy
with other activities.  If things had taken a different twist he could
easily have been writing Wikipedia articles.

- Jim