Saturday, May 12, 2007

Elderly iPod users skip a beat

The excuse:
this kind of test had never been carried out before because it was never really an issue, being that most pacemaker wearers tend not to have an iPod.
"Never really an issue" because we ASSUME that All Those Old Morons will NEVER understand our hip, young, cool bullshit. I am getting increasingly outraged as the methodical disenfranchisement of older people in our society. "Yeah, don't even test it for safety, they're all too old and tired and lazy and stupid." With that prejudice driving so much of product development, and with product development driving so much of popular culture, is it any wonder that age discrimination is not only alive and well in America, but getting WORSE and affecting younger old people (down into the 40's and even 30's), every day?

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