Do you still have a printer along with your home computer? Or perhaps I should ask if you even have a home computer anymore? I got my first printer, a dot-matrix model, back in 1989. And while it was fun to have access to that technology at home, the cost for ribbons and ink kept…
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Over the years, I’ve talked about my love of technology. I genuinely get excited about the latest tech toys. They don’t have to be fancy or expensive, but I’m always on the lookout. This week is the annual CES, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Each January, hundreds upon hundreds of tech companies show…
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Outside of politics, one of the most talked-about subjects this year has been artificial intelligence. And even that has political aspects. Too many, it’s something brand new and something they’re just encountering online. But engineers, designers, and experts have been working on AI for a long time. And already some people are tired of it….
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When you’re a digital pack rat like I am, you never know what kind of old files you’re going to find. The other day, I was in my home office looking for something, but I don’t even remember what it was, and I came across some old files that included digital videos. I shot them…
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Today we’re exploring technology, again. But this time, I’m walking down memory lane. When I looked at the calendar this morning, I realized it was 10-4. You know, like the old CB radio catchphrase, 10-4, good buddy. It’s hard to believe the CB radio craze occurred just over 50 years ago. Although it was short-lived,…
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Many people won’t admit it, but they fear technology. Everything’s changing at such a rapid clip that many people don’t know what to do. And some people can even be considered technophobic. No, technophobia isn’t a clinical medical illness, but experts say many suffer from this fear. Two of them are my parents. For as…
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I’ve never looked up this statistic, but I’ve got to think that by the end of our lives, at least 80% of us wear glasses for some portion of them. For some of us, it starts early. I got my first pair before I was six years old. I remember getting them midway through kindergarten….
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As you know, I spend much of my life online. All of us do. It’s hard to believe I’ve been living online for over 20 years. And the more time that we spend online, the more advanced bad actors become. Because of that, we have to have secure passwords, pass phrases, or passkeys. But wait,…
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I’ve long been fascinated with new technology. While I understand the fear that some people feel when accepting something new, I wonder why we tend to embrace everything the way it’s always been. Take reading, for example. For so long, we read things like newspapers and books. It didn’t matter if those books were hard…
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For years, many people dreamed of having a cushy office job. They came from blue-collar families and never thought they had a chance to sit behind a desk from 9 to 5. But as our society shifted, office jobs became the norm. But that norm may be no more because, for many, there is no…
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