Get on Top of Your Tech in 2021
People are busy going through closets and drawers to toss the junk. But how about your phone and computer? Our friends at Senior Planet share how to make 2021 the year you put your electronic house in order.
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Save Money & Stay Safe While Holiday Shopping Online
The holiday shopping season has arrived! Instead of running to the store to get a good deal, navigating crowded buses and subways or struggling to find parking only to wait in line for hours, many prefer to holiday shop online. Many online sales started on Thanksgiving and continue through the weekend and CyberMonday and beyond.
Translating Tech: Navigating the New Facebook
Life during quarantine made virtual socializing more important than ever, and few resources are as valuable as Facebook…until recently. If…
Online Learning Opportunities for Lifelong Learners
Today’s older adults have access to other paths that generations before them never had thanks to the Internet, including online learning courses.
How Florida is Fighting Social Isolation
The state of Florida is creating a whole new way for those in assisted living facilities to connect with their loved ones with the launch of Project: VITAL (Virtual Inclusive Technology for All).
Translating Tech: The Gig Economy
If you’re looking for insight on how to make remote work and the gig economy work for you, then you can’t miss these tips for experienced professionals.
Preparing for Parkinson’s: Embracing Technology to Stay Connected
Parkinson’s disease is a debilitating diagnosis, but there are technological advances that can help keep you connected to your loved ones in the difficult times ahead.
Avoid Scams Targeting Seniors with GrandPad
Older adults are often the targets of scams that attempt to steal money and private identity information. Find out what the top 5 cons and hoaxes are focusing on older adults from a former FBI agent, and how an advanced tech company called GrandPad has created a secure tablet specifically designed to protect seniors on the internet.
Steven Johnson
What are the most important innovations that helped create the modern world? Writer Steven Johnson discusses his book and PBS special “How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World” and describes our tremendous leaps forward over the past several decades.
Barbara Beskind
Every time she goes to work, Barbara Beskind, 90, smashes the stereotypes of aging. Find out how the conceptual designer’s new job in Silicon Valley is not only having an impact on her young co-workers but on her fellow retirement home residents, too
Thomas Frey
Futurist Thomas Frey weighs in on mankind’s future, including such hot button topics like our prison system and why Earth may not be our only homebase.
Cisco Exec Explains Why YOU Should Be Engaged
The man who calls himself a “technowist” (someone who leverages the current tools and prepares for future advancement) talks to Growing Bolder about recent world events that have helped prove that when people collaborate, they can make a difference.