Comment Re:Don't want to pay (Score 2, Insightful) 538
Um, no they don't. My generation "needs" broadband. A lot of older people, especially the elderly, have no need or desire for the internet. I suspect that when I am in my eighties, I will have much less desire to communicate with the world or check the news on a minute by minute basis. Just because some of us use the internet on a regular basis, that doesn't mean that everyone would be better off for it.
My anecdotal evidence suggests you are incorrect. My 80 year old father regularly surfs the net via his broadband connection while sitting in his recliner with his laptop (wireless of course). He falls asleep and drops his laptop occasionally, but nothing has died yet. My 74 year old mother sits upstairs and uses email and google talk to communicate with her children and grandchildren.
Some day soon, high speed connectivity will be as normal as electricity is in the developed world.
