Status Quo

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 …

In the 1967 classic ‘The Graduate’ Mr. McGuire became the most high profile example of clueless adults giving career advice to a younger generation when he tells Dustin Hoffman’s Ben Braddock the ‘one word’ essential to his future success: plastics. In 2013, President Barack Obama displayed the same sort of …