Normally I write about kids and technology, but this time I want to take a look at the opposite aspect of the user spectrum – our senior era. Working each with seniors and know-how for years, I even have discovered many things that may make life simpler for them in our technological society, but there nonetheless appears to be a niche in understanding just what our elders face when coping with know-how.

Scientists are starting to get really clever with the nanotechnology which they can make. One of the wonderful issues that they’re working on is the event of ‘self-replicating’ nanobots. That means nano-scale machines that are in a position to make different nano-scale machines. This has led some to consider the possibility that these machines could get too good at replicating themselves and that we might not have the ability to cease them from replicating. This may lead to …