‘YOU’RE never to old to learn how to use a computer - except, of course, if you’re dead.
But even that needn’t be a stumbling block in Italy, where a man dead for 30 years has just received a cheque from the government to help him buy a computer.
Innovations minister Lucio Stanca wrote to Nicola Valeriani: ”Dear Nicola, this year, to congratulate you on coming of age and to mark this special occasion, I want to congratulate you with a special gift.
”As part of an initiative by my ministry known as the ‘Fly with Internet’ project you have been selected to receive a grant to help you get on-line and buy a new PC.”
Valeriana, who died in 1974, would have been 116 this year - not 16 as the ministry computer had assumed.’
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