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Björn Brost - The Digital Crisis Silently Destroying Our Elderly

Bjorn Brost left the corporate world to solve a problem most of us walk past every day. He now teaches elderly people how to use technology - not because they lack intelligence, but because nobody ever slowed down long enough to show them how.

1:23:40
June 15, 2026
Björn Brost

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Björn Brost

Founder · Digital-Literacy Educator

Björn Brost is the founder of Digital im Alter, a Zurich-based initiative helping seniors across Switzerland get comfortable with computers, tablets, and smartphones - the kind of practical, patient, one-on-one support that most digital literacy programmes overlook. His entrepreneurial streak goes back to founding his first mobile phone consultancy at sixteen, and after more than 25 years in IT and telecom, a chance encounter in 2016 revealed just how underserved seniors were as technology moved online faster than support for them did. Known locally as the "PC-Freak" for his calm, endlessly patient approach to solving people's tech problems, Björn left the corporate world behind to make this his full-time mission. On Decoding Wisdom, he gets into why digital exclusion is one of the most overlooked social crises of our time, what it actually means to be cut off from a world that's moved entirely online, and why the solution is often far simpler than people think.

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Bjorn Brost left the corporate world to solve a problem most of us walk past every day. He now teaches elderly people how to use technology - not because they lack intelligence, but because nobody ever slowed down long enough to show them how.

Sachin and Björn go deep on the moments that shaped the work - the visible wins, the invisible costs, and the frameworks that survived the experience.

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