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Reader's Digest India
|March 2024
IT SEEMS LIKE you can't read the news nowadays without hearing about some new technology that could fundamentally change the lives of people-ideally other people.
I don't know about you, but despite being fairly tech-friendly my initial reaction is usually one of alarm. And not for big-picture reasons, but for fairly personal ones. Since the dawn of the digital age, one of my permanent concerns about the ever-increasing role of technology in daily life has been the enthusiastic participation of my mother on every possible cutting-edge platform.
This story is from the March 2024 edition of Reader's Digest India.
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