The term WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) came into common use when computer screens became capable of putting letters and words on the screen that would look the way a page printed from them looked. At this point, of course, you have to be pretty old to remember what things were like in the “old days,” before WYSIWYG […]
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Posted March 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel P. Bowman, on 31 March 2020 March 31st, 2020 | Tags: altering eye, automobiles, Blake, change, cities, computers, countries, experience, geeks, Kalamazoo, Mexico, Michigan, middle age, perspective, Shakespeare, smart phones, states, terminals, the Mental Travller, typewriter, Vietnam, water buffalo, what you see is what you get, William Blake, wisdom, WYSIWYG | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted August 31, 2015 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 August 2015 E-publishing is just one of the changes being brought about by technology. Changes in print technology have definitely come at a rapid pace. I typed my dissertation on a manual typewriter. That was 1974, and while that may have been before you were born, in the grand scheme of things, it is essentially “yesterday.” I […] August 31st, 2015 | Tags: ABC, AM radio, Apple, cameras, CBS, CDs, CNN, communication channels, computer-based print technologies, computers, Crome, e-publishing, electronic typewriters, face-to-face, FaceTime, Final Cut Pro, FM radio, Future Shock, high definition, iMove, iMovie, Internet, Internet news, Internet video, John La Valle, media richness, Microsoft, Movie Maker, Music, NBC, NLP, NPR, Orlando, print messages, records, Richard Bandler, secretaries, Skype, software, technology, Toffler, TV, typewriters, video calls, video cameras, video processing, wire recorders, word-processing, YouTube | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted May 31, 2015 in Uncategorized By Joel Bowman, on 31 May 2015 Charles Dickens opens A Tale of Two Cities with one of the best-known lines in all of English literature: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of […] May 31st, 2015 | Tags: "live", awareness, behavior, Charles Dickens, computers, Dragons, Eben Alexander, eighteenth century, evening news, Heaven, Hell, here there be dragons, history, hundred years war, life-after-death, London, maps, Medieval, mystic, mystical, Nature of Reality, NDE, Near Death Experience, New York, nineteenth century, Paris, politics, postal delivery, Proof of Heaven, real time, reality, religion, religious belief, science, Shia, smart phones, Sunni, Tale of Two Cities, televisions, the Eternal, the unknown, video | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed Posted April 30, 2015 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 April 2015 One of the principal challenges of modern life is keeping up. The other principal challenge is remaining calm and centered even while working to keep up with the way things are changing. The rate at which things are changing has been increasing exponentially for generations. For thousands of years, the only way for humans to […] April 30th, 2015 | Tags: airplanes, Alvin Toffler, automobiles, being in tune, center, change, computers, contemplation, contempletive, crime, crocheting, electricity, entertainment, fighting crime, Future Shock, gardening, horses, iPad, knitting, Korea, meditation, new technologies, nineteenth century, prayer, quilting, radio, rate of change, rocker, secretaries, seeking and finding, self-driving, staying centered, steam, sundown, technology, the cloud, The Third Wave, The World Is Too Much With Us, travel, TV, twenty-first century, typewriters, Vietnam, William Wordsworth, wind, wind-power, WWII | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed |
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