Old technophobic Germans, and heavens knows there certainly are a lot of those, just aren’t as feisty as they used to be.
Forced at gunpoint by a younger generation that’s mad as hell and isn’t going to take all the nagging while they’re online anymore, practically a third of all Germans between the ages of 65 and 74 have now succumbed to the terror and are using the malevolent ‘merican medium as best as they possibly can, which isn’t very good, but still. A full 60 percent of the jittery old codgers between the ages of 55 and 64 have been pressured into going online now too. The old wimps.
“Viele Senioren gingen nach kurzer Lernphase souverän mit dem Internet um.”
Observing Hermann 
When you’re retired, you have time to travel more, right?
One thing that’s forcing everyone to go online whether they like it or not is online check-in.
If you don’t check in online before getting to the airport, you’re sitting in the middle of 10 rows on a long-haul flight, or separated from your travelling companion at the least. Even then there’s no guarantee that won’t happen.
Hermannator,
That’s such a great photo.
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Hermannator,
Oh, I was in Berlin a few weeks ago and snapped this photo from the Bauer-Demo:
Atomkraft? Nein, Danke.
Thought you might get a kick out it.
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Cool photo – looks like it’s back to the future, I mean past, or was it future??
The future. If everything goes according to plan, Germans will only burn wood for energy. Die Waelder, of course, will start to look pretty barren, but it’s the price Germans are willing to pay to kick the evil Atomkraft habit. Coal and oil are too dirty, of course. Wood is just right. Hold it, that does sound like the past. Damn, Hermannator, now I’m confused, too.
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