I am aged 60 and first saw internet-like technology (actually the UK's Joint Academic Network (JANET)) used in 1982, where IIRC the whole comp sci department ga

I am aged 60 and first saw internet-like technology (actually the UK's Joint Academic Network (JANET)) used in 1982, where IIRC the whole comp sci department gathered round a terminal to watch a file being ftp'd from somewhere in the US. I have used computers ever since. In many ways I have deeper IT skills than many digital natives in terms of understanding what is going behind the screen although I'd be the first to admit that as my reflexes (and mind?) have aged I'm slower at navigating or discovering interfaces than I used to be. But when the 'digital native' thing comes up I prefer to think of myself as a 'digital pioneer'. I was there on the electronic frontier, sort of, when it was still a sparsely populated wilderness. We could explore and in some cases create our own digital worlds. Now the big walled gardens are there instead, populated with the digital natives, many of whom are creatives and power users even if the majority are happy to consume. They will find or create aspects of the technology that I could probably never conceive of. But some of us remember being out in that digital wilderness, looking at the clear skies and snow covered peaks on the distant horizons, and wondering what we could achieve in this brave new world.