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That's an interesting position for a young guy and one I wouldn't have expected. The whole computer thing is more your generation while my generation of retirement age are traditionally the newspaper crowd.
Yes, many of my peers are fully and happily immersed in the digital age that is currently being foisted upon us. However, those of us in our early thirties were really only on the cusp of the whole PC/internet boom. For instance, I rarely saw a computer in use in our high school (graduated in 1995) and never had the slightest clue about the internet until I began attending university. As a matter of fact, I ended up as one of a handful enrolled in an obscure "Computers for Business" class during my junior year because the typing class (yes, complete with IBM Selectric II typewriters) was popular and filled up quickly. So, while it's a broad generalization, I would say that the twenty-somethings (and younger) out there were the ones that really "grew-up" with computers. Yes, there were geeks that I knew that messed with Commodores and Apples, but for the most part we, like our parents and grandparents, were late comers to this digital "party."
Regardless, while I do see the value in the net and PC's, I'm also not so infatuated with technology to be fooled into giving up all of my old print standbys to the new digital media. There's just too much garbage floating around in cyberspace for me to waste time sifting through it to find worthwhile, trustworthy sources.
That said, thank goodness for PackardInfo.com...both trustworthy and imminently worthwhile!
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