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Daily Tech News Show

Seniors in Tech: Allison Sheridan

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

News, Technology

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Seniors In Tech, a podcast mini-series where we bust stereotypes by talking to seniors who either worked in the tech industry at the beginning of the digital era, and or are currently tech-fluent in their everyday lives. I’m Dr. Niki Ackermans and this week we are talking to Allison Sheridan, who used to work in engineering and is also one of the earliest podcasters!

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0:00.0

A tech demo shows off the usual tech things.

0:04.0

Then I'm going to jump to a link.

0:05.0

Using the usual tech devices.

0:07.0

We have a plane device called our mouse.

0:09.0

Doing the usual tech productivity tasks.

0:11.0

Now we're connected audio.

0:13.0

You can see my work. You can point at it.

0:15.0

And I can see your face and we can talk.

0:17.0

Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda

0:20.0

for the next half century, then almost immediately be ignored.

0:24.0

The mother of all demos on no a little more.

0:27.0

Get it wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

Welcome to seniors and tech.

0:35.0

A mini series where we bust stereotypes by talking to seniors

0:39.0

who either worked in the tech industry at the beginning of the digital era.

0:42.0

Or currently tech fluent in their everyday lives.

0:45.0

I'm Dr. Nikki Akramins.

0:47.0

And this week we're talking to Alison Sheridan,

0:49.0

who used to work in engineering and is also one of the earliest podcasters.

0:53.0

Yeah, give us your senior cred as you were just saying.

0:58.0

Well, I'm a podcaster in the technology space.

1:02.0

And but in my senior cred is that I'm 63 years old.

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