Ageism is exacerbated by technology. Pervasive communications technology has increased the number of choices that we have. We are suddenly all in competition w

Ageism is exacerbated by technology. Pervasive communications technology has increased the number of choices that we have. We are suddenly all in competition with many more people. That means that superficial signals like age and culture rise in importance just to reduce the search space. It's Tinder-ification.