The expression, “May you live in interesting times,” has been considered an ancient Chinese curse since Robert Kennedy popularized the saying. What makes times interesting? In general, conflict and anxiety. Most of us are familiar with the Biblical warning about wars and rumors of wars, and very few of us have had the luxury of […]
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Posted February 28, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 28 February 2019 February 28th, 2019 | Tags: ancient, anxiety, blogs, broadcast, change, channels, conflict, dictation, electronic blogs, electronic mail, email, envelope, history, horses, Interesting times, letter, letters, mailable letter, meaning of life, party line, Pony Express, Post Office, roller coaster, secretaries, secretary, smart phones, telephones, television, thrills, world | 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 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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