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A while back I wrote about the train tracks that cross Rte. 40, the highway leading from I-95 to A1A along the beach (http://growingbolder.com/blogs/uncategorized/sounds-in-the-night-673583.html). That same Rte. 40 is the road we travelled several times a month to visit Ormond Beach before we moved here permanently. After driving over those tracks you come to a bridge that spans the Halifax...

Did you know that less than half of all African-American households have broadband access to the Internet, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project? As one of a small number of African-American baby boomers who is active online, I have to say the internet has opened doors that might have, otherwise, been closed to me. It has connected me with people I would've probably never met...

"The Internet is the greatest bridge ever built. If only we will cross it."That's a statement my boss, Marc Middleton, lobbed out during an Age of Opportunity Chat on February 26, 2009. It was part of a broader discussion on the power of technology, especially as it pertains to the over-50 crowd. The Age of Opportunity is itself proof that the statement is true -- never before have the tools and...

The #AgeOp think tank on Twitter asked its members to write a blog titled, The Internet is the Greatest Bridge Ever Built. This is my response.The printing press, invented by Guttenberg in 1445, brought the light and power of the written word to everyone in the world. But access to and distribution from the printing press was determined by power, politics, and money. The flow of information has...

In the weekly #AgeOp chat on Twitter, GrowingBolder.com CEO Marc Middleton suggested we all blog about the following statement: The Internet is the greatest bridge ever built. Boy, is that an understatement! From banking to keeping in touch to finding directions, is there an area of your life that you don't use the Internet for these days? But the problem is that many people only use the Internet...