Martha Lane-Fox strikes me as being a bit of a feisty lady who knows her own mind and has been very successful in various ventures, not least of which was lastminute.com, the travel website she co-founded.
You may have heard that she’s started out on a new venture to get everyone in the UK using the Internet by 2012. It seems that there are something like 10 million people in this country who are not yet switched on. Now this seems to be a pretty ambitious target and there are always those people around who simply do not want to get hooked up to any kind of new technology and simply refuse to try and understand it. I remember many years ago visiting an old great-aunt of mine and the bulb had blown in the main light in her sitting room. I offered to change it for her, but she was worried that if I removed the bulb the electricity would fall out!
The time will soon come when our retired population will have grown up with computers and it will be second nature to them. They couldn’t imagine life without a computer or the Internet in much the same way as we couldn’t now imagine life without a telephone or a TV or radio. I can’t see it happening by 2012, but I wish her luck with the project.
You are obviously computer literate or you wouldn’t be reading this, but do you have friends who are not on the Internet? Maybe you could help Martha by getting them interested.
Be well.
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