I am finding myself in an interesting position. I just got off the phone with a 21-year-old college student who called me to get advice on how to set up a cheap VOIP phone system she could use to send and receive calls over her dormitory network. This is not how it is supposed to be. I get this kind of thing all the time–kids asking ME how to use the new social media and technology. And then I get fellow aging boomers asking the same sort of questions–most of them are just interested in pictures of the grandkids at this point.

I guess that the premise of this blog may, in fact, be wrong–and that is not the kind of admission that you hear from a guy like me without using waterboarding. There may, indeed, be a digital divide between the old and the young, but, when you get right down to it, only a crazy few keep up with the leading edge. Read the rest of this entry »