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A heads up that, in 2026, a 70 year old grandmother could just as well have had a 30-40-50 year career in computing. Don't use grandmothers as the go to trope for tech illiterate users :)
Grace hopper died in 1992 well into her 80s.
Edit: Ada Lovelace (maiden name Augusta Ada Byron. Yeah that was her dad, no they never met, but that's the time period) wrote the first computer code with a quill pen. Computers were largely considered 'women's work' until I think like the late 50s; most of turing's team at bletchley park were women. Up until the 1980s it was probably wise, if you wanted the deep lore on computers, to ask somebody's grandma.
In fact, "computers" were women whose job was to do calculations in the era before electronic computers.
Decent point. Not every grandmother is my grandmother. And a 21 year old that has only used phones and tablets to consume content may actually be less tech literate than an older person with no screen experience that knows how to fix their car, blender, or sewing machine.