Blog Post #1
Blog Post #1 Topic: Summarize and reflect on what you've learned this week. ------------------------------------ As a child raised deep in the Appalachian mountains my technological world consisted of a television, which I first began watching at the age of 8, a radio, a cassette recorder and a few brief encounters with an Atari. There were two television channels that came in with “rabbit ears” wrapped in tin foil and even telephone lines weren’t wired into my neck of the woods. I enthusiastically read an entire set of encyclopedias for entertainment if that tells you how void of the outside world my mountain world really was. Many of the technological advances that were revealed in my youth were not only fascinating, they were magical. After all, Arthur C. Clarke (1983), a science writer and futurist did say that a sufficiently advanced technology is indeed indistinguishable from magic. The magic microwave at a friends house, their magic telephone without a curly ...