The Weight of Mobility I have a love/hate relationship with the mobile phone. I appreciate and am fascinated by how a smart phone works, but hate the invasion into our personal life. Have you seen what is happening in China? In order to initiate new mobile phone service, the customer must submit to...
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Our Smart Phones are Listening Lately, I have noticed that I am receiving adds for items, that I have spoken about but have not searched for on the Internet. At first, I thought it was just a coincidence, but it has happened too many times for us to ignore. It has led...
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Industry 4.0 I remember, while in school, being fascinated by the Industrial Revolution; so much so that when I returned to visit my grandmother, in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, the roll of film, which I shot, was of smokestacks from Bethlehem Steel not of her and I. The Industrial Revolution 1.0, mechanized and...
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“Danger, Will Robinson” I love technology and believe it is vital for children to be engaged in it, at an early age. Recently, I asked my seven year old great-niece, what is a computer; and she responded perfectly: “They tell you what to do.” I immediately thought, I have some reprograming to...
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“You can’t be what you can’t see” ~ Sally Ride ~ I wonder when Sally Ride wrote her letter to NASA, if she knew she would be breaking the ultimate glass ceiling? In 1977, while a PhD student in astrophysics at Stanford, she responded to an article that was in the Stanford Daily...
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Seeing is Believing In a previous article I have written about telemedicine. http://thatisallfornow.com/?p=16757 I appreciate telemedicine, “skip the trip” mindset, which in some cases, can be quite burdensome. There are many people, who have to schedule personal time off from work, for a doctor’s appointment, which usually results in at least a...
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Smalltalk, it’s a Cleveland Thing Yes, as a former Clevelander, I am playing with the word, Smalltalk. But did you know that one of the inventors of Smalltalk was from Cleveland, Ohio, and a woman? First, what is Smalltalk? Simply put, Smalltalk is a programming language that was created as a method for...
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Don’t Tell Anyone Shhh . . . don’t tell anyone, but I bought a pair of “smart glasses”! As the end of the year approached, I thought I would be able to get another pair of glasses, at my usual place; but my insurance changed, thus I needed to find a company who took...
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MTTD Four Years Today, in the cybersecurity community, we understand that it is not if you will be breached, but when you will be breached. When I heard that Starwood guest reservation database had been breached, I was not surprised. I was not surprised, not because we are accustomed to hearing about our personal...
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Event Driven Event driven programming is represented by the below flow chart: As I was looking at the flow chart above, I thought about how some people live event driven lives. What do I mean by this statement? There are people who live in a state of rest and become initialized only when an...
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