Despite the occasional high profile discovery of older people on the web, the web still feels like a young place of facebooks, twitters, IM and social software for job seekers and ‘contact junkies’. Likewise, the field I work in is also heavily populated with young people trying to develop appropriate technologies and services for older people. So it’s always nice to find someone writing about older people, and in Ireland to boot. Joe Cahill is someone who has just started blogging and is involved in the Older and Bolder campiagn in ireland, designed to create a national strategy for older people. One of his first posts has the wonderful air of excitement and curiousity to it…
This is where the fun starts but before I begin I want to say to my contemporaries out there that they don’t know what they are missing, if they haven’t got a computer there in some corner, connected to broadband and always on line. Somehow its your ear and eyes to the world, to your friends and relatives, whether scattered around the planet or just down the road.
When broadband began to be a feature in Ireland somebody said it would have an effect on Irish life similar to that experienced when electric power was first distributed. I would agree entirely with that statement so here I am, spreading the gospel!