According to the "Statistical Report on China's Internet Development", in 2019, there were 253.88 million people aged 60 and above in my country. There are only over 60 million elderly people who have access to the Internet. In other words, nearly 200 million elderly people have never had access to the Internet, let alone know how to use it.

According to the "China Future Media Research Report" released in January 2020, the intelligent development of media and the aging of the population have not matched supply and demand. The elderly may become "information" in the era of intelligent media. "Isolated island" has become a digitally disadvantaged group marginalized by the new media wave.

This is not alarmist. The elderly are becoming more and more marginalized. On the one hand, as they grow older, the living habits that the elderly have developed cannot be changed at all. They have no intention of changing and do not want to change. In addition, The ability to accept has declined, and it is more difficult for young people to accept new technologies. On the other hand, some managers in our society do not consider the elderly as a special group at all when promoting electronic informatization. Most of them adopt a "one size fits all" approach and do whatever is convenient for management. Perhaps in their view, They have no shortage of consumers at all. If things go on like this, if the process of media digitization, networking, mobility, and intelligence continues to accelerate in the future, those generations of elderly may become increasingly unable to keep up with the trend of the times, or even be completely abandoned by the trend of the times.

Take the most talked about and widely used health code during this period. Nowadays, high-speed trains, subways, airplanes and even buses and other means of transportation must use health codes to ensure safety. This in itself is a good thing worth promoting, but many places do not fully consider the actual situation of the elderly group. Because some elderly people don't use mobile phones at all, they can't talk about health codes, which means they may be unable to move and cannot travel at all, which makes them very confused. Fortunately, some places made timely adjustments and introduced paper health codes or other health certificates to allow such elderly people to travel.

I think that although it is understandable to pursue rapid development of science and technology, there should be more humanization in the use process and not one size fits all. To be honest, modern technological means and traditional means do not conflict with each other. Blind pursuit of speed may not be the best choice. We should still consider the user groups comprehensively and leave some space for the elderly who do not know how to use or cannot keep up with the pace of development. The right to choose and the space for survival, and the "dual-track system" that combines modern information with traditional management is the best choice for humanized management. After all, we all will grow old one day, and we may also face the day we are abandoned. By then, no one can predict what kind of information technology will come out and kill us on the beach!