At Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:22:17PM +1000, Gregh wrote:
I would love to know the average age of the list inhabitants.
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It has been my observation that things which are new become better known when a generation has grown up, completely, with it and is teaching the next generation.
Until that occurs, you are going to get one heck of a larger lot of uninformed users because they are not only young and clueless but every other age and clueless. Worse, they are clueless in a lot of cases because they are frightened by new technology. Eventually, it will become as common as a car on the road and at that point, taking obvious steps wont even be a topic for discussion any longer.
Of course you're right, but this isn't going to happen for a long time.. and besides.. there are a lot of people in my generation that are not that tech-savvy at all.. I'd say the top uses are Games, IM/blogs/etc and P2P None of these really have anything to do with being good guardians of the net. Of course in the long-run you'll prove me wrong.. but I think it'll take a fair while yet.. anyway, i just hope we'll have made good progress on other fronts. - bri