Substantial_Boiler t1_iuiid85 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:17 PM

Reply to comment by BlkSunshineRdriguez in Left in isolation: how the online revolution failed our elderly people | As day-to-day services increasingly move to the internet, older and vulnerable people are cut off by SetMau92

How is this relevant

BlkSunshineRdriguez t1_iuj943a wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:14 PM

Public telephone booths provided telephone access to everyone for a small fee. People who couldn't afford telephone lines in their homes (and there were many!) could still make calls. Some people even gave out the number of a phone booth near them when applying for jobs so that they could get a call back! Couldn't this paradigm be a starting point for a solution so that Internet access is available to all?

Substantial_Boiler t1_iuk6fcw wrote on October 31, 2022 at 11:15 PM

So you mean an Internet cafe/library computer?