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This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
Jeanne Destro
119 episodes
3 days ago
WAKR's Jeanne Destro discusses a new tech topic each week!
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WAKR's Jeanne Destro discusses a new tech topic each week!
Show more...
Technology
News,
Tech News
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OK Boomers: Seniors, Technology, and Better Health
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
11 minutes 2 seconds
2 months ago
OK Boomers: Seniors, Technology, and Better Health
It was one of those "I can't believe I fell for it", moments on social media, where somebody was going on about how this "old lady" couldn't figure out how to process a particular type of electronic payment at a store, when I started seeing red, especially because "old" was defined (in her mind at least) as "over 50". The nerve!  Well, I can laugh about it now, but at the time I was pretty steamed. Once I calmed down, I realized that I had fallen for the bait that the tech giants behind social media build into their algorithms, to generate both outrage, and engagement. The madder we get, the more we click, the more we click and comment, the more money they make on ads.  Anyway, it got me thinking, and I decided to stop being mad, and start getting even, in a positive way. So I called some experts to help me find out if there really is any truth to what I perceived as an ageist bias against older people, for their (alleged) inability to use technology. Our featured guests on today's edition of "This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro", are Abby Morgan, who is the CEO of Direction Home, the Akron-Canton Area Agency on Aging, and Cleveland Clinic Gerontologist Dr. Ken Koncilja. Listen now.
This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
WAKR's Jeanne Destro discusses a new tech topic each week!