Specifically, much older folks.

First, from the BBC, is a story about a group of Cistercian Monks who have had broadband installed on their remote island. They live on an island three miles off the coast of Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and their reliance on dial-up internet was hampering the Monk’s work: selling home-made perfume and sweets over the internet.

The monks now hope that their increased connection speed will drum up more business for the self-sustaining community and, if there’s ever an economic venture I’m likely to support, it’s one that wants to feed the nation more sweets.

Even more startling than the religious – and now broadband-connected – monks is that of a survey that’s just been conducted in America.

Catchily titled 100@100, it’s canvassed the opinions of a centurion of centenarians to find out what keeps them improbably healthy. Fantastically, some of them say that technology is keeping them young: plenty of older folk sit back and surf Google, Wikipedia, Amazon and political websites, do their shopping online and research their favourite topics.

They’ve even been dating, with 3 out of the 100 respondents saying that they’ve hooked up with someone else they’ve met online. I’m guessing that they went to a lovely, secluded tearoom – after checking out a local garden centre – before whipping out their Eee PCs and checking their emails over a scone or two. Fantastic.

No mention of them defecting to Cuil yet, though. Funny, that.

There have been several blogs from various members of the PC Pro team about the joys of sat-nav recently. First I gushed about the ease with which I drove 1,400 miles in a couple of days, and barely got the map out once. Then Darien got all excited about the beat-the-ETA game everyone inevitably ends up playing to liven up long journeys.

But this… well. This is just brilliant.

According to CNN, General Motors is developing a windshield that “combines lasers, infrared sensors and a camera to take what’s happening on the road and enhance it” for ageing drivers.

So in the fog they’ll see a laser-projected blue line marking the outside edge of the road they’re on, and it’ll even enhance and outline objects like animals, pedestrians or trees to reduce the possibility of accidents in poor visibility conditions. And if they’re speeding, a pink outline will highlight speed limit signs to attract their attention.

But let’s be honest here, it’s not just old people who’ll love this. I’ve already had the odd scary moment where I’ve drifted off into a trance and found myself actually driving based on the curves on my sat-nav rather than watching the road. If that route can instead – by some sort of hook-up with a sat-nav – be beamed on my windshield, I’ll never have to look at a map again. It’ll be like those bits in Terminator and Robocop where you see through their computer eyes and everything’s pointed out for you. Idiot-proof navigating.

And just think of the benefits: that’ll leave me totally free to concentrate on beating that all-important ETA.