Talked into a laptop by his younger colleagues, Shattuck tossed it out after a matter of mere months, preferring to write his articles by hand. A formidable scholar and a fine craftsman, he could handily have mastered the intricacies of e-mail, but in Bartleby-like fashion, he preferred not to. Roger Shattuck, born in August of 1923, was one of those stalwarts. Among those who refused to heed e-mail's siren call, there was yet another divide: between those who, either out of infirmity or ineptitude, failed to master the necessary computer skills, and those few crusty souls who actually harbored an animus toward this seductive technology, believing that internet knowledge was dangerous, that certain things should stay, well, forbidden. At the time when e-mail and the internet first came into dominant use in the United States between 19, there were those who adopted it, whether eagerly or reluctantly, recognizing that business and personal communication demanded its use, and those who steadfastly refused. There is a decisive divide between those people born, say, before 1925, and those born subsequently.
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