[Purpose/Significance]The purpose of this study is to explore the factors affecting the elderly users’adaptive use of intelligent technology in the digital economy era,and propose the countermeasures for elderly users to improve the adaption to the smart society.[Design/Methodology]Comment content of the Weibo topic#China takes action to break the intelligent gap between the elderly#were taken as data source,the individual adaptive structure theory(IAST)was as the coding framework,the directed content analysis method was adopted to extract the...