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The first official day of Gnomedex <\/a>is nearing its end and it has been a worth while day.\u00a0 The opening keynote was interesting, but too political for my tastes.\u00a0 The theme was “open government,” presented by Robert Steele<\/a>, but it was very heavy handed and spent a lot of time picking apart political and corporate leaders.\u00a0 Yes, they probably deserve it; No, that’s not what I paid to participate in at Gnomedex.\u00a0 The day got better after that.\u00a0 Guy Kawasaki<\/a> discussed product\/company evangelism and was entertaining and informative as usual.\u00a0 A very interesing presentation was given by Ronni Bennett<\/a> about the need for technology to address the needs of the aging members of our society.\u00a0 The baby boomers are growing up and there are many uses for technology in that age group that are not manifesting themselves currently.\u00a0 Specifically, creating the ability for monitoring health over the Internet is not out of reach and would be a huge benefit to those that are aging.\u00a0<\/p>\n A key theme\u00a0was that the form factors and user interfaces of technology products and software do not cater to the elderly in the way that\u00a0they should.\u00a0 To demonstrate this, volunteers from the audience were given glasses to better simulate the reduced light that the eyes of the elderly are able to absorb, and gloves to simulate reduced motor skills and touch sensitivity. The volunteers had a very difficult time just navigating and reading websites using standard laptops.<\/p>\n It was a\u00a0well thought out\u00a0presentation\u00a0that definitely pointed to a gap in the tech industry (and an opportunity for geeks who can fill those gaps).\u00a0 My favorite quote of the presentation: “In your life, you will be old for much longer than you are young.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0 The first official day of Gnomedex is nearing its end and it has been a worth while day.\u00a0 The opening keynote was interesting, but too political for my tastes.\u00a0 The theme was “open government,” presented by Robert Steele, but it was very heavy handed and spent a lot of time picking apart political and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}