One day I will write about Montreal and Québec properly. Not now though.
I just came back from a fortnight among family and friends, mostly and rather unsuccessfully trying to stay away from the web. It was interesting though to get a glimpse of other people’s internets. Most of my good friends are not from a tech or design background. They are in biology labs, students, lawyers, event organisation, shop owners… Normal people you know. So it was strange that some of them didn’t have a cell phone but all of them had a Facebook account (something i no longer have thank god). When I told them I had a blog and posted my pictures online all the time, its like they didnt know what to do with that kind of information. RSS really needs to be explained to people better, because the walled garden that Facebook has created will make normal people think that’s all the internet has to offer in terms of self expression.
Another interesting experience was getting a 65 year old friend of mine to understand how to use Windows Vista….what can i say? FAIL!!!! I can imagine a plethora of new browsers starting to be developed for the elderly, because frankly, we young ones are used to living with a whole bunch of visual clutter we don’t need. But someone trying to come to grips with computers and the internet is really totally fracked.