We have provided synopses for many books on technology over the now completed 14 years of the First Friday Book Synopsis. Clearly, there are many avid readers who embrace technology and can’t wait to see what’s new. Here’s the next one that we will likely see covered in a book soon. It is called Project Glass, and… Read More The Technology We Will Read About Soon – The Online Buzz Last Week
News item: The company is selling its cost-savings and margin-boosters, not just its benefits for customers sick of waiting for the bill, to businesses. First and foremost: lower labor costs… Annie Lowery, This Waiter Doesn’t Need a Tip: How restaurants will use tablet computers to replace servers. – Slate.com. ————— In an ongoing series of… Read More Where Will The Jobs Be? – Even Waiters Are In Jeopardy; High School Graduates Really Do Have Fewer Places To Work
This is just an “isn’t this interesting” thought. Here’s a little exercise. We pretty much publicize the First Friday Book Synopsis with Constant Contact, and nothing else. (I’ll leave out our web site as part of this little exercise). We used to simply use our own e-mail program. This is so much better! We send… Read More Thoughts on Technology, Old Fashioned Mail, and Constant Contact
Cheryl offers: I flew home from Boston this week only to learn how lucky I was to not be flying from JFK. It seems on February 16, an air traffic controller decided to bring his kids to work and let his son, the next night his daughter, provide instructions to departing flights. I had no… Read More Take Your Kids to Work Day NOT!
One of the more popular, most-read posts I have written on this blog is Dehumanized — A Cause for Alarm in Education, and in the World of Business Books. It was prompted by, and quoted from, a terrific, thought-provoking, confrontational article by Mark Slouka in the September issue of Harper’s: Dehumanized: When math and science rule… Read More Dehumanized, a Second Take: Dehumanizing The Consumer and Job Seeker
I do not have time (or at least do not take time) to re-read books. I always have my next assignment, and the clock and calendar are so unforgiving. But occasionally I think back to a book that I feel I need to rediscover. My current such volume is Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to… Read More Data, Data Everywhere; Is There a Drop of Wisdom in its Midst? — Some Thoughts prompted by Neil Postman
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