I wonder if there will ever be a concept of “retiring” from the Internet (as a social space/network of publics that is, not as basic infrastructure) as there is with industrial social life. Or will we only make jokes of the form “old highly-online people never die, they just ___”
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go out of date
overstay their welcome
become stale / predictable / formulaic
get boring
go out of fashion
become irrelevant
get outcompeted, outshined, overtaken, overshadowed
cease to inspire
get alzheimer's
start mumbling
get put in the nursing home
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Some types of retirement cocoon, limiting experiential overwhelm (villages). Others explore experiences & people forgone (back to college, travelling, new arts/hobbies, civics, dating). Some will definitely opt out (I'm getting postal mail at...) but many will double down.






