My grandfather died in 2022.

My grandfather died in 2022.
One of the last conversations I remember having with him, years before he died, was about the internet.

He spoke of it like a restaurant.

"Is it any good?", he asked.
"What do you mean? Is the internet good?", I replied.

"Yeah, I just don't get what all the fuss is about. I don't use it."

I left scratching my head.

It's amazing how such massive technological shifts can seem obviously important to one generation and strangely underwhelming to another.

It made me think about the telephone and automobile.
Today, their so ubiquitous that (excluding the amish) everyone will use them within their life time... usually in childhood.

But that wasn’t always true.

When did the last human die who never used a telephone?
When did the last human die who never rode in an automobile?

At some point, those technologies crossed an invisible threshold from optional to expected.

Which makes me wonder:
Where are this era's holdouts?

The people who will live their entire lives without the internet.
Without ai.

Not because they can’t access them but because they don’t see the point. Is it worth trying to convince them otherwise or is the humane path to let them live in peace?