Technophobia

Over the past few days some incredible videos of fireworks shot from a drone’s-eye vantage point have been making the rounds and for good reason–they’re downright amazing. While there are few things more tiresome than seeing countless photos and videos of fireworks every Fourth of July filming fireworks with drones …

I follow an account called ‘Inobites’ on Twitter and enjoy reading their thought provoking quotes on innovation like this one: Being #innovative means challenging what you do everyday to see if there is a faster, better and more #effective way. — Inobites (@inobites) June 11, 2014 In other words, innovation …

Having successfully vilified texting and cell phone use while driving our Federal overlords are moving on to their latest target–cell phone GPS app regulation. For some reason they’ve decided that there’s a veritable slaughterhouse of Google Maps distracted deaths on US highways and that since we as citizens don’t have …

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 …