Staying ‘Ahead Of The Curve’ on the Technological Super Highway
Below is an interesting article from James Lupori, author of Kenmore Undressed. Which got me thinking about all the technology available to us. Then today, just to drive the issue home my son refused to drink out of a day old water bottle because the water might not be purified enough. It was all I could do not to say, “Hey you, we didn’t have purified water when I was a kid, we had to carry a bucket of water uphill, both ways, make a fire and boil it before drinking it!!” Ok, so maybe I’m 40 and exaggerating just a bit and this doesn’t have much to do with technology but we do have some things pretty easy nowadays. Then his second grade friend gave a power point presentation with a laptop in school the other day…wow! My grandparents can’t even operate their thermostat.
Quoting James Lupori, he mentions that keeping up with technology is like “drinking from a fire hose”, now that’s the truth. Be sure and read the whole article to check out the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008
How are you dealing with all of the technological changes in your life? Let’s face it, iPods, computers, telecommunication technology and other tools have literally transformed our world. I don’t know about you in your career but as a Realtor (c) it’s incredibly important that I keep up with a MASSIVE amount of information. I must also adapt to new communication technology (phone and computer) and I need to distill all of this “stuff” into a coherent package (or toolkit) that I can use to be effective in my work as a real estate agent. This very blog is the result of a huge number of technologies working together. Trying to keep up is like drinking through a fire hose. It wasn’t so long ago that things were……..different:
I went to high school in the early and mid 1970’s….you know, we had disco and high inflation (or stagflation..I can never remember which), the unpopular Vietnam War was raging on and we had any number of other crises from OPEC’s gas embargo to to Richard Nixon’s plumber’s union. I sure some of you don’t remember that there was even a “Cold War” going on. Basically, humanity was wrestling with some fairly complicated issues. Looking back, it’s hard to believe our troops in Vietnam couldn’t just email family and friends, the President had to call the Soviets on the “red phone” if there was a dispute or misunderstanding. We barely had VCR’s and video games. Computers were rare. In fact, my high school had a couple of small computers that only the most dedicated math geniuses could fathom. When I look back on it, it’s as if we were moving through time in the dark. How anything got done is a miracle……….
