Your grandparents embrace the digital age. Sort of.   According
to a Pew poll conducted earlier this year, 15 percent of
Americans over the age of 18 don't use the Internet or email,
and most of them have no desire to change that fact. More
surprisingly, 92 percent of those without Internet said they
were not interested in getting it.  This disinterest can be
explained in part by generational divide, as close to half of
those disinterested were over 65. A number of aging curmudgeons
have recently written distant and derisive stories about the
Internet's many different roles in our lives, provoking a chorus
of reciprocal derision from people who have no interest in old
and Internet-less brains.  In a much criticized essay for The
Guardian, award-winning author Jonathan Franzen wondered if
"people will get as sick of Twitter as they once got of
cigarettes," and then admitted Twitter's monetization plan seems
"like one part pyramid scheme, one part wishful thinking, and
one part panoptical surveillance." In an e