Why do I have to choose this topic for my project? Is there any problem?
Yes, I think it is very serious problem and it will be much bigger problem in 5 years. The birth rate is getting lower and the older people is living longer than before. Also older people is stable in financially compared with younger people because they can just enjoy their lives with their money or pension. This means that they can be the biggest consuming population in the future that is not that far from now.
In Japan, the government are concerning more about ‘silver industry’ now. They think that the older people can be the biggest consuming population in the future so they are preparing to create products or services only for the older people.
We can find some tour package for the older people but we don’t consider the new media products and the services for them at all, I think. We all live in 21st century and everything that is surround us is almost new technologies. And they enriches our life much better and easier than before. For example, the mobile phone. The mobile phone is not just a phone any more. We can do many things with the small and thin new technology. However, how about the older people? They also use mobile phone everyday but do you think do they know how to use that properly? I mean do they know how to use all the functions of mobile phone? I don’t think so.
I did survey in my last year at university when is 2006, most older people answered that they know how to call but they don’t know how to use the cool functions of mobile phone.
This is my first problem and this is my first reason why I chose this topic for my project. We all use mobile phone and digital technologies but not everyone of us can use these new technologies. WHY?
