Times Like These

Technology and everything associated with it has exploded and gone viral. The genie has exited the bottle and there’s no way to put him back.

The recent exponential growth of tools like social media, and the transition from what began as Web 1.0, or the first generation tools beginning with the Internet, which produced a static web, has rapidly transitioned to and through Web 2.0. Web 2.0 introduced interactivity via blogging and brought us to and beyond the social networking of Facebook, which most of us are now so familiar with. With the compression of exponential change into shorter and shorter bursts, we’ve entered the next realm of growth wrought by mobile technology, mainly smartphones and Web 3.0. Continue reading

Bye Bye BlackBerry

I'm gonna miss my BlackBerry.

I’m gonna miss my BlackBerry.

We live in an age of constant and often, rapid change. Technology foists new things upon us at an ever-increasing rate. The 21st century means adapt, or become obsolete and a dinosaur.

Smartphones have changed the way that Americans access information and connect. The very first smartphone, IBM’s Simon, was rolled out in 1992. They’ve changed dramatically over that gulf of two decades. Continue reading