Lawyer Shares Story Of Her Client Who Finds Technology Challenging After 30 Years In Prison

People get used to technology as they live side-by-side with its development. But some people cannot keep up with how far it’s got—the elderly, the poor, and the ones that were detached from modern society for years.

People who had served more than decades find joining back the society a whole lot harder than ever.

It’s more than just how things have changed: technology has integrated so much with our life that it was just unfathomable for some to imagine living and growing up without it. Some kids think screens are naturally touchscreen, and Gen Zs don’t believe how we used to pay per message when texting.

Human rights lawyer Maria Burnett shares how her client who served 30 years in prison got out and find joining Zoom meetings challenging.

She spent time with him getting used to using a laptop, using emails, and how to operate Zoom functions.

She finds it regrettable that DC social services think people will just naturally learn how to use things.

This man had took a small step towards rejoining the society, but many more need help.

Humans are not animals with instincts that are naturally inclined to learn to do things as time goes by, even if you leave them alone. But even so, if you do not expose these animals to their natural habitat for too long, they, too, will forget how to act like themselves.

Much less human beings! Technology is not ‘natural.’ It is something that we need to learn to do and even more importantly, have the money to afford. Technology changes so fast and the lockdown has pushed people to get used to doing things remotely and online.

Like that man, there is a need to help people who are rejoining the society to also get used to how digital space is becoming part of our life.

Several people share their own observations and experience dealing with people in similar predicaments.