I've disliked that stereotype for a while. My mother (who is 68) started off programming with punchcards when she was working on her Masters in Economics, she

I've disliked that stereotype for a while. My mother (who is 68) started off programming with punchcards when she was working on her Masters in Economics, she eventually moved into executive work but still kept up her chops with Basic and Fortran well into the 1990s. Nowadays, she uses VNC to telecommute into work every morning to avoid having to deal with traffic. If I had married earlier and had kids as soon as some of my schoolmates did --and my kids did the same in turn-- she could have been the great-grandmother of 20+ year olds. I think we should almost be to the point in computer history where age-based archetypes/stereotypes of computer ignorance can be safely retired.