Passports for air travel to/from US and Canada will be required as of October 1; for land travel the implementation date is in 2008. Here's the State Department's web site for hte process.

And back to the thread topic: my mother and mother in law, both born in 1910, simply refused to acknowledge the existence of computers. High tech just wasn't on their radar screens, and they both passed on the the next life without any of the equipment deemed essential for contemporary digital living.