Seniors I notice have assumed that working on computers is only for youngsters. I am a senior and proved it otherwise. Spending a bit of time to get myself acquainted with it was all that was need for me to start with. I got the hang of it bit by bit and I can now confidently say that a computer is like a paper tiger.
I created a Facebook Group with great enthusiasm to get together ex employees of the Company I was working for. A photo posted by another ex colleague prompted me to open that Group. I did not realise however that there are not many on Facebook who would join there.
We are all seniors now and not many seniors are computer savvy. Some have not joined FaceBook, although they do have some basic knowledge about computers. I experience this all the time.
After giving up my job midstream I joined computer classes and did a few courses of those times such basic, DBase, Lotus, Excel and so on which as we all know are of no use now as Windows has taken over which is user friendly. I had to get help from someone to learn this.
Then came the Internet. I did not give up,. Earlier it was very basic where we had issues to deal with every step of the way. This again has become easy now. Internet and yours truly are now inseparable.
Sadly, however, seniors of my time just do not want to go anywhere near computers as they find them intimidating which is not true.
I face the same situation when it comes to writing sites. There is not a single person of my age group who is in my real life who has joined any of these sites.
My virtual world therefore consists of those who share my interest and not necessarily those who I know in the real world. Life has to move on but there is nothing I can do about it. If they want me in their life all those in my real world should learn to work on computers.
Now with the Indian Government trying digitise and create cashless transactions, this will atleast make these seniors realise the importance to get into the world of technology.
Handling finances this way could put a fear in their minds of seniors as to the correctness of handling this activity but sooner or later they will have to plunge in and take courage to become computer savvy.
It is not just seniors even those illiterates would be forced into this activity as sooner or later India expects to be cashless. This way it expects to eradicate black money and how successful it will be only time will tell
It is indeed a huge activity in that we need to have the infrastructure be it bigger time servers, more staff in the banks, more swipe machines, at every nook and corner. While in cities this could be within reach it is a nightmare to think that rural areas would embrace this system without having to exclude several who will not able to get in.
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What you have told about seniors is very true. I think one of the reason they are not comfortable is that they find too many commands, websites, software, programs and too many service providers providing 101 different options to confuse the already confused individual. While there is a category of people like you who are willing to learn and be with the times by accepting the changes taking place, there will be more than 80 percent of the population in our country who have got used to a system in which they have spent all their life and they suddenly feel left out and see the system is outpacing them by leaps and bounds. Let us take the case of software version or a mobile phone the companies want to make money more than innovations and they want to thrust them on the market to run their respective shops and earn revenue in the process. As people grow and get aged they find it difficult to accept change and would like status quo. Now with economic reforms being thrust into peoples throats in India we are going to see more of these problems coming to the fore. This can be tackled as it is a blessing in disguise. The government has to invest by providing jobs to people in IT sector to teach and enable the rest of India to move forward. If they do this they can provide employment to youth and elders will be digitally educated. Orientation courses have to be conducted on a mass scale. I have written three to four articles about demonetisation and its impacct in the forum in Knowledge is Power Use It Wisely. A good article written by you touching on an important aspect of common mans life especially senior citizens.
You are right when you say upgrades are made just to earn and not to improve the life of anyone. Not many will use those additional features but just get those upgraded gadgets to compete with others.
I have a basic mobile with no internet facility. I prefer my pc for that. The screen is so small and that could be a strain on one's eyes. And now with digitisation everywhere I may have to change it to a smartphone most unwillingly though.