Is your technology a trap?

I can’t help notice the proliferation of technology aimed at keeping us connected, updated, accessible.  Gone are the days of cell phones, pagers and PDA’s.  Those days have been replaces by the iPhone, the Google phone and now the new Blackberry touch phone.  These devices are indeed mightly slick.  You can surf the web, send/receive, [...]

Computer Ethics

When looking at the economy over the past couple months there have been some interesting events: Bears Sterns, Fannie and Freddie Mae, Lehman Brothers, AIG; couple the subprime mortgage crisis with the high gas prices and you get a collection of concerned individuals. Because of this, companies and employees are trying to cut costs wherever [...]

Backing Up To The Future

Backing Up To The Future Printer Friendly Version at http://flybynightpublishing.com/PDF/080921BackingUpToTheFuture.pdf When I visited the Physics Department of the University of Buffalo the other day, I got a chance to test their time transport machine prototype. When I, and several other IT professionals, went to the year 2020, this is what we found. · War is [...]