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Do We Need a Tech Boom For the Elderly?


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Young man, old man, phone

What's he doing?

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Joseph Coughlin has been director of the MIT AgeLab ever since he founded it in 1999. In his new bookThe Longevity Economy, he contends that old age—much like childhood, adolescence, and gender—is a social construct, and a modern one at that.

From Ars Technica
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