Yesterday, I wrote about the fact that the elderly cannot change.

The earliest memory I have is of a small cathode-ray tube black and white TV.

I don't remember that, however, as far as my time is concerned, a refrigerator was one where they would buy a block of ice from an "ice man" who would come to your neighborhood and put it in the refrigerator.

The washing machine was a two-tank type, and dehydration was done with manual rollers.

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I think the microwave oven initially cost about 400,000 yen.

A word processor was about 2 million yen.

A PC-9800 without an OS was about 500,000 yen for a full set.

Anyone who could use a computer (before they were called "Otaku") was the "perfect technical elite".

However -- we have now been 'decided' that every citizen should own a smartphone.

Self-employed people are forced to use their PCs to file their tax returns, and citizens are encouraged to use their My Number cards to obtain documents for government services at convenience stores.

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What I'm trying to say is -- are we older people so 'bad' that we can't keep up with the digitalization?

No, no, no, I understand.

I know that I am the one who is blaming the elderly for not being able to use digital technology.

To be frank,

"If you were driven by technological evolution and innovation in a similar timeline and position, can you say with certainty that you could normally use today's digital technology?

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Well, all you elderly people, including me.

Not all of them, of course, but the majority of the people were able to go about their lives in a peaceful country without being directly involved in the ravages of war.

Hopefully, we will not be directly involved in the ravages of war and will be able to die.

We've been caught up in a "digital" disaster, but let's just say it's tolerable.

The more we continue to be wicked, the better our world will become -- maybe.