best technology guidance for people over 50
What's worth your time online after 50 — and what's a trap. From a 63-year-old who builds AI for a living.
Most technology advice treats people over 50 like they've never seen a computer. Most of the internet treats them as targets. Neither is acceptable.
I'm Afshin. I'm 63, I've spent my career in technology, and I build and run AI systems every day — including the one that helps research this site. These guides are what I'd tell my own friends: what's genuinely worth your time and money online, what's a scam, and how to set things up so they work for you. Plain English. No condescension. No hype.
And one belief behind all of it: I can't believe I'm alive to see this technology — I'd have bet it was a hundred years away. People our age should not let it run past them.
New here? Start with the scam-texts guide — it's the one that protects you the most.
What's worth your time online, what's a scam this week, and how to set it up : no jargon, no condescension, free, unsubscribe anytime.
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