Aging In Place Technology Watch March 9, 2021
The trumpets sounded loudly at the arrival of Voice First. The Future of Voice First and Older Adults was published in February of 2018. A re-read shows how excited the 31 interviewees and participants were, offering their vision of the future of this technology and its potential use by older adults. Has the future arrived in the world of seniors, senior housing, home care? Has the future arrived for the technologists who invented Voice First and the broad market of consumers who bought and benefited, from the early days? Is voice first indistinguishable from magic? That’s the way it seemed in 2014 to those comments from Witlingo founder, Ahmed Bouzid, interviewing for a job at Amazon – after interacting with...