Christmas Tech

It’s Christmas time and technology comes alive.  I know what you are saying....what else is new.  Everything is now connected.  The TV can think on its own, the refrigerator can tell you what you need on your shopping list, and Alexia controls it all.  I just finished connecting all my table lamps to remotes.  As crazy as it sounds, I love this concept.  My iPad talks to my Mac Book, which is connected to my Apple watch and finally all my info is stored in the cloud.  When I was a child all the toys needed my imagination, not batteries.  They didn’t talk to you or follow you around.  Now many of them are worth a lot of money if properly kept in pristine condition. Collectors pay big bucks for some of the toys that I threw away.  I wonder what will become of today’s toys? My guess is once they become old and no longer needed, will they fill our landfills?  I now work for a Museum and what I have noticed is that what remains is those items that bring memories to light or those items that made a difference in the lives of those viewing the displays.  As I look around the living room just a few days after Christmas I see the ghost of Christmas Past laying alongside of the present nd maybe the future.  What will last and what will fade away? Only time will tell.

It’s been a long time???

Have you ever forgotten an important part of your life because, as they say...time marches on.  Since my retirement from Education, my life has taken several twist and turns.  Leaving the Educational Field and moving into my second life has allowed me to see technology in a different way.  Once you get out of the day to day focus on useable technology ideas, it becomes much harder to keep up with the current latest and greatest software and hardware.  This is when you think outside the box and find those who still have that daily focus.  While it is very humbling for me to ask others for help, I have found that it enables me to now focus on the big ideas and let my “experts” figure out how to make it happen.  I currently work as a tour guide at a local history museum.  Once they found out that I have a background in technology, the game began.  We focus on a guided tour through seven museums. After taking our visitors through there museums, I discovered that technology was not being used to enhance the experience.  Over the next few weeks, I will talk about how we use. Technology at our museums.