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June 3, 2012 by kevinstilley

Bill Gates – select quotes

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on Sunday morning.
– in Time magazine

Filed Under: Blog, Quotes Tagged With: Bill Gates, Leadership, Microsoft, quotations, Quotes, technology

August 8, 2011 by kevinstilley

Digital Nation

Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE.

Filed Under: Blog, Zeitgeist Tagged With: college, Gadgets, technology

May 10, 2011 by kevinstilley

Internet Trivia

The Internet was originally called ARPANet — Advanced Research Projects Agency Network — designed by the US department of defense

Filed Under: Blog, Trivia Tagged With: Internet, technology, www

January 19, 2011 by kevinstilley

Exponential Times

Students, below are the “Did You Know” videos.   The one we watched in class about exponential times is version 3.0.

    Did You Know 4.0

    Did You Know 3.0

    Social Media Revolution

    Social Media Revolutions 2010

Filed Under: Blog, Zeitgeist Tagged With: change, Education, Social Media, technology

December 27, 2008 by kevinstilley

Google Planet, by Randall Stross

Book CoverPlanet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know, by Randall E. Stross

According to my StrengthsFinder 2.0 results, I am a collector of information.  According to my wife, I am a packrat.  So it should not come as a surprise that I would be fascinated by a book about Google. whose stated goal is “to organize all the world’s information.”

Stross has managed to weave together a tale that is part biography and part techno-thriller.   (If they ever do a modern remake of Clint Eastwood’s movie A Fist Full of Dollars, they can put Microsoft and Yahoo at opposite ends of the street and let Google play the “Man with No Name” Eastwood character.)  After listening to this audio book twice I now think differently about blogging, searching the net for information, relationships, my private information, and what kind of plans for the future I can realistically make

I thoroughly enjoyed the audio book version of Planet Google, found it to be eye-opening, and have no hestitation to recommend it to you.  However, I don’t believe that I would have been as absorbed by the print version, so readers beware.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Front Page, Graffiti, Theology Tagged With: book review, futurism, Google, Googlers, Internet, technology

July 2, 2008 by kevinstilley

The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, by Samuel C. Florman

Existential Pleasures Engineering

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Hmmm…. is there such a thing as pleasure which is not existential?

There were two things about reading The Existential Pleasure of Engineering in which I took pleasure, existential or otherwise; (1) it was only 160 pages long, and (2) the author referenced great or interesting literature on nearly every page.

The cover of the book has a blurb that reads, “Enchanting.” The New Yorker. I have decided that this must be a warning that the book has some kind of hex / enchantment on it that makes book reviewers lose perspective. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: Blog, book review, Books, engineering, existentialism, future, literary, Science, technology

May 23, 2008 by kevinstilley

Love Your iPhone?

In 2005 a young man wanted something to prevent his wristwatch from getting scratches on the face. He resorted to technology that is used by the military to protect helicopter blades from damage. His search for an answer to a personal problem resulted in the birth of a new industry – protective coverings for electronic devices – ZAGG’s invisibleSHIELD™.

If placed in a situation where they had to choose between spouse and children or their iPhone, I have friends that would clutch their iPhone close to their heart and say goodbye to their families. That’s a bit extreme but it does tell you something about the value people place on their iPhone.

People who value their iPhone, even if they don’t value it more than family, will be interested in the ZAGG’s invisibleSHIELD™ iphone cover. The invisibleSHIELD is only .2 millimeters thick making it the slimmest iPhone skin or iPhone cover of its kind. It is virtually invisible and practically indestructible. Check out the videos at their website and you will see what I mean.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, electronics, iPhone, technology

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