Over the holidays, I saw my parents. Typically, our conversations go towards computers and the internet because they know I know about those things and they really do not know many other people who do. This time was different, because the context of the conversation was regarding newspapers. Their main complaint was that if newspapers died or went purely online, where would they get their news? They did not want to read their news on a computer because they sat in front of a computer all day for work. To give you an idea of why this conversation was happening, my parents are in their late 60s and do not work in high tech jobs.

I started to ask what would get them to use a computer for news, but that conversation ended before it started. Once I mentioned the idea, the typical complaints arouse. “I like the feel of a newspaper”, “Where would I get coupons” and others of a similar nature. They were fighting change because it is too big of a change for them. For the longest time, computers were solely used within the domain of work. They did not grow up with compu