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On an otherwise slow news day one of the more widely reported stories has been the National Park Service’s sweeping ban on the use of privately owned drones in the parks under their jurisdiction. It also applies to model airplanes but it’s the au courant buzzword ‘drones’ that is the …

First of all a couple of procedural matters: I’ll be enabling comments on the site within the next few days. That’s been the plan all along but I wanted to make sure that I set it up to minimize comment spam. Also, I’ll be recording the first ‘Future Fallout’ podcast …

A report from the Pew Research Center received a good deal of media coverage when it was released in mid-April and its results underscore the antithetical mindset about technological change evident among the general public and in government and mainstream media. The report entitled ‘US Views of Technology and the …

Expansive article on The Telegraph (UK) website about the huge technology generated changes yet to come. It gets a little bit fear mongery at times but at least makes an effort to ‘connect the dots’ and understand that the times they are a-changing. The Coming Digital Anarchy (The Telegraph) The …

A few years ago the so called ‘digital divide’ became a cause celebre for a little while. The basic premise was that lower income people have less access to technology and the Internet than higher income people and that this was ‘widening the gap between rich and poor’. They were …