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Conversations on technology for community service providers

What Lurks in your Digital Shadow?

When asked by retail stores, hotels, gas stations, movie theatres, and other seldom-frequented commercial businesses for my email address, for many years I have responded with: “Before giving you my email, what can you tell me about your privacy policy?”

Topics: non-profit digital shadow

Hollywood Imaginings May be Truer Than We Think!

Mad Max Fury Road, the recent epic sci-fi blockbuster, has some pretty impressive adaptive equipment on display throughout the film. It got me to thinking about other Hollywood portrayals of adaptive equipment, and curious about how far have we actually come in 2015, with their real life counterparts. How much of the Sci-Fi Hollywood technologies shown in films and on TV, are actually possible now? Remember Geordie La Forge from Star Trek the Next Generation? That’s right, the visually impaired character who had those rad eighties looking glasses than enabled him to see. Have they, or something like them been invented yet? Well yes it seem they have, and they can be purchased… for a price. http://esighteyewear.com/what-is-esight

Topics: non-profit adpative technology

Managing the Generational Divide

During a water cooler conversation about music recently with a much younger coworker, (a 21 yr old millennial) I mentioned an encounter with a pop music icon of my youth, (I’m a Gen X.) He then made it quite clear that he had never heard of said pop star, which besides making me feel really old and outdated, apparently absolutely astounded my other older coworker (a baby boomer) and had him proclaim “How can that be even be possible?…. in this, the internet age...for you to not have heard of him?….Wow!"

Topics: non-profit

Old is the New Green!

My first edition iPad (with wifi!) is now almost four years old. Purchased in late 2011 for the same price as two new tablets. It still works well if a bit slow to change screen directions these days. My mobile phone is two years old, ancient by today’s standards, but still does all the “smart” things I need it to. It seems that owning “ancient” devices makes me a green tech user by default.

Topics: non-profit e-waste

Are you Legal?

Every country and culture has laws and codes of conduct that are understood by their citizens, especially the laws that can be regularly broken or bended without major consequences. Here in Canada, most of us have likely jay walked, parked illegally, not accurately declared all the goodies stowed away in our luggage, and perhaps been creative with our tax declarations. We have a collective confidence that despite our actions technically being illegal, we won’t likely be audited, busted or ticketed for these minor offenses, so we take the calculated risk.

Topics: non-profit

Do You Feel Safe in the Cloud?

Archeologists and historians cut fine figures in our collective imaginations. Plaid suited, with armies of textbooks at their side while they study artifacts and papers to decipher the complicated puzzles of the past. How will this be done in another two hundred years? What will our future historians and archeologists actually look through? Will deciphering OMG’s BRB and TTYL be a challenge? Will they be seen as some kind of hieroglyphics that will need to be de-coded? Will they be looking in the clouds?

Topics: non-profit