Cause:
Q: What's your opinion on the connectivity between our generations?
A: 1. There is always a gap between our generations. There is a sanskrit saying by DV Gundappa: An old root and a young bud together make a beautiful tree. So whenever a problem arises, one should always be one step ahead of the other and be open to each other's opinion. Openness and expressing yourself, your opinions and problems is really important
2. Today's youth culture is totally different from what it used to be a few years back. If this continues Indian culture and tradition will totally lose its value and significance. This needs to be preserved by passing on to the next generations.
Q: How to solve your current problems?
A: Initiatives need to be taken and for that the ones having power need to empathize with the people facing the problems
Q: How to acknowledge skills and address issues?
A: Each individual has his/own strengths, we need to accept that, build upon the same to make it stronger and achieve something. Be aatmnirbhar as the PM says and put your skills to use to develop yourself into a better individual.
Comprehension part-1
Q: Would you prefer sharing your experiences and advising youth publicly or personally?
A: Both of them are required, depends on the situation and the topic. Common ones can be addressed publicly while the personal ones need to be addressed on a one-to-one basis.
Comprehension part-2
Q: What can we do to help you?
A: 1. Make an open source documentation of whatever an experienced person has to share by taking a detailed interview and publish it for those who may need it. This will reduce lots of repeated work and prove to be an asset to the budding scientists.
2. There are lots of new technologies that keep coming to the market which you can help updating us about. Lots of them are quite affordable and would significantly reduce the time taken for our work.
3. There are things which we wanted to do as kids, but we didn't have the opportunity back then due to constraints. Be it higher studies or learning new technology or gaining extra knowledge in any domain as such, if you could help us relive our childhood and take us back to learning days, it would be great.
Conception
Q: What would your dream app look like?
A: 1. For old people like us, texting and searching is difficult and leaves us confused. I need a simple answer preferably in audio or video format. Should be like a dream go-to-guide, better than alexa as it gives direct answers and not just the websites
2. Profession as a journalist: I need a huge collection of related articles and poems so that making a new one on their basis becomes easier for me. So if lots of professionals and skilled people would pool their work together it would help anyone who can access it.
3. If I have some new solution or want to share some experience with people who might find it useful, I need a proper platform where I can do and actually reach people. If something was solely meant for this purpose of sharing experiences of the elderly and aimed at socialising and bridging the generations, it would be more efficient and successful.
4. Be it technology, engg, finance, agriculture or any other field, if all the important concepts could be pooled together, it will be very helpful. An app where professional from any field can share their experiences freely and this entire information is collected and made available openly.
5. A goto app should be userfriendly and multilingual. A forum can also be created in order to answer questions something like quora.
Connection:
Q: How comfortable are you using an app?
A: 1. It's not that big of an issue. For example due to the pandemic, we had to start using a lot of apps like gmeets, zoom, skype, which we never used before but we learnt them now due to the necessity. Due to the necessity we had to get updated and we will be ready to do so again if need be or in case of guaranteed results.
2. It needs to be user friendly and it shouldn't be the case that we will have to keep running to our kids for solving the app problems because that would defy the sole purpose of the app meant for independance and self sustainability of the elderly.
Possible problems
Q: What about fraud cases? For example if someone approaches you for advice and then asks you for money to help them get out of their apparent difficulty, what would you do in such a case?
A: Instead of directly giving him the money, I would find out what the exact problem is and help him at the root cause itself. Cross checking needs to be done before any kind of monetary favors.