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AI Is Bringing Back the Dead, And We Need to Talk About It
This is what grief actually looks like. Not an algorithm. Not a chatbot. Not a subscription service. This. And that distinction matters more than the tech industry would like you to think. I've been sitting with this one for a while. That's not something I usually say. Most of what I write about, I feel clear on. Scams make me angry. Privacy violations make me frustrated. Bad tech policy makes me want to write to my MP. The emotion is usually straightforward. This one is diff
Michael Routhier
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How the Tech Industry Deliberately Left Older Adults Behind
The digital exclusion of adults 55 and older was not an accident. It was not the natural outcome of technological progress moving faster than people could keep up. It was a deliberate choice, made by technology companies during the most critical period of the internet's development, and the evidence is now documented and undeniable. The Dot-Com Era: When the Choice Was Made (1990–2001) When the World Wide Web emerged commercially in the 1990s, the technology industry faced a
Michael Routhier
Mar 233 min read
Being Locked Out of the Internet Is a Civil Rights Issue
In 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution declaring that the same rights people have offline must also be protected online. Internet access became an internationally recognized human right. Yet millions of adults 55 and older remain systematically locked out of the digital world. That is not a market inconvenience. It is a civil rights violation. The Internet Is Now a Human Right — Officially The UN Human Rights Council's 2016 Resolution A/HRC/RES/3
Michael Routhier
Mar 233 min read
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