As many readers know, I don’t own a cell phone. I like the freedom that brings. I suppose at some point I’ll get a flip phone, especially if I drive across the country again, but right now I’m happy without it. I also don’t carry a credit card, although I do have one in case I ever need to fly somewhere.
Today I read a message from my friend Bill. I want to share it; it sums up how I and some of my friends feel in today’s world:
A society that forces a ninety-year-old to use a smartphone in order to access basic rights is not a modern society; it is a society that has decided to cast aside its own elders.
By 2026 everything has become an app, a code, a portal. Yet the very people who built this country with their own hands now find themselves illiterate in their own homes. If booking a medical appointment or paying a bill requires the help of a son or granddaughter–assuming there is one–then the system has failed.
This is not innovation. It is exclusion.
Technology should serve people, not determine who is still entitled to dignity.
When we leave behind those who came before us, we are not evolving. We are merely becoming more comfortable–and more selfish.
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