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Learning, working, contribution and legacy

Women in IT – 2026 participation is the same as 1986

You would think that women were playing a sizable role in tech by now.  You would be wrong.  And historical trends underpin the delta between men and women in tech. Despite early interest in the 1970s, including computer programming, by the mid-1980s women were disappearing from computer science programs.  Consider reasons that are offered, including the possibility that recently introduced personal computers were more likely to be bought for boys than girls. Note the reinforcement from Apple ads (no kidding) about what these computers could do for the career dreams of boys.

Generations on Line Marks its 25th Anniversary on Grandparents Day Sept 7

09/04/2025

PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 2025) — Generations on Line, a national nonprofit that teaches
older adults to use the internet, is marking its 25th anniversary on National
Grandparents Day, observed this year on Sunday, September 7.
Launched September 7, 2000, with then-Philadelphia Mayor John Street and U.S.
Commerce Secretary Norman Mineta, Generations on Line has provided free internet
training tutorials to over 300,000 older adults nationwide and, through its apps, in other
English-speaking countries.

Storii Creates a Person's Life Memoir Over the Phone

04/27/2023

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Storii is launching a new story-telling platform that creates a person's memoir and makes preserving family history easier than ever. Storii allows people to record their life stories, with no computer, smartphone or internet required. Instead, the platform records a person's memories as they relay them, over any phone (including landlines). Using meaningful question prompts, Storii can capture unique stories that otherwise might not be requested, recorded, or shared.

2023 Market Overview (4 of 4): Technology Augments, Does not Replace Care

Technology solutions augment care – not replacing family or support. The categories of technology offerings help older adults age successfully and include independent market segments – each useful – but together, they complete a puzzle for a fulfilling and interactive life for older adults, enabled with the support of families and caregivers and include the sub-categories as shown in the examples at the end of the Technology for Aging 2023 Market Overview.  Care-related service organizations are taking a closer look at technologies that could help them cope more effectively with staffing shortages and other issues. However, as the photo history of phones shows, the trick is to select solutions, not tech, with staying power and support services to buffer organizations and individuals from the harshest impact of change.

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