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Dealing with Vision Difficulties & Computers

Wednesday Dec 16 2009

Many of us--the vast majority of Boomers in fact--deal with the trials and tribulations of vision loss. Corrective lenses address some issues, but not all. Reading glasses can help focus on things within 12 to 18 inches. Progressive lenses allow for relatively natural vision for anything that is close, far or in between. And HD lenses, offering the latest in technological improvements, provide maximum clarity at all distances, reduce distortion and increase your field of vision (as compared to progressives). However, for those with low vision, color blindness or blindness, even these are insufficient when it comes to computers.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Health

Tagged with: blindness color_blindness low_vision technology vision_loss

Practical Economics 101

Wednesday Sep 09 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio

I am not an economist. Thank goodness. This is not a good time to be one. There is a wonderful overview of the field, “How Did Economists Get it So Wrong?”, by Paul Krugman in the New York Times. The bottom line is that the current situation “which nobody could have predicted” was predicted and it doesn’t take an economist to know that:[Read More]

Written by eldering at The Great Turning

Tagged with: blindness economics freshwater_economists obama paul_krugman point_of_view possibility saltwater_economists technocrat