By Anne Stych – Contributing Writer, Aug
15, 2019, 3:47pm EDT
Signature
Pointe is a finalist in the Technology Adopter Award category for the 2019 Tech
Titan awards. Category winners will be announced at an awards event on Friday,
Aug. 23. For more information about the awards event, click here.
Technology
has come a long way in the lifetime of Signature Pointe residents, and thanks
to the senior living community’s partnership with tech innovators, they
continue to reap its benefits.
Signature
Pointe, managed by Life Care Services, has joined together with
Dallas-headquartered MyndVR to provide residents with VR technology to help
improve their quality of life.
The
residents, including those in memory-care programs, can access senior-friendly
content with virtual reality headsets.
Here
are Signature Pointe Sales and Marketing Director Nancy McCarthy’s answers the Business
Journal's questions about working in tech in DFW.
What
does the intersection of people and technology mean to you?
I think
our youth are losing their social skills because of technology. I see this in
the interns that come to work for me. Some of them who come from social
families find it easy to adapt to people and social interaction, and some who
grew up with technology and not much family socialization find it very
difficult. In the senior living environment, you have to have social skills —
our seniors did not grow up on technology.
Who is
your tech hero?
The
leaders I had the pleasure of working with at Nortel during my 15-year career
with them here in Richardson. If it were not for the male leaders at Nortel who
took chances and hired women for technology roles in the 1980s, I would not
have grown to love the technology field.
What’s
an example of technology that people don’t use any more yet we take its
replacement for granted?
Replacing
the rotary phone with the cell phone as the only phone in people’s homes. Being
an engineer for Nortel and working in the telecom industry on the advancement
in cellular technology was amazing. I think people today can’t imagine not
having a cell phone, but we had great lives without them back in the 1970s.
What do
you think is something that will happen with technology in the future that
people don’t see coming?
People
not being able to communicate one-on-one with each other without the use of
technology.
What is
something that other technology-focused cities have but north Texas is missing?
Other
cities have had the benefit of startups that have become leaders in technology,
so those cities just get noticed more. I think people forget that Dallas is
home to Texas Instruments and many great technology companies — we just have
not had popular tech success stories like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Google,
Amazon, Microsoft etc. come out of Dallas. We need a good success story, so
let’s start inspiring our kids to create the next best thing here in Dallas.
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