Category: technology

Is New Tech Giving Olympic Athletes Unfair Advantages?

The 2012 Olympics have arrived and with it, a new controversy over technology in sports. The Olympics is a tradition that dates back literally thousands of years, but new technology is giving athletes from richer countries a clear advantage.  We obviously can’t stop progress, and sports have changed and will continue to change, but where we draw the line is where the controversy lies....

Apps- Improving lives or Making us Lazier?

I read an article in The Wall Street Journal about how web and mobile apps are making us lazy. But is the goal of technology not to make our lives easier? Is this not the ultimate goal? The article uses a few specific examples of apps which allow us to goof of but they aren’t saving work so much as passing the buck. One...

60 Day No-Email Challenge Update- The Immersion

About a month ago I embarked on my challenge of 60 days without email and right now I’m at a point where I’m going 10 days without internet. This post was written in advance to fill you in. For 10 days I’m completely shutting out technology. I’m canoeing for ten days down a river with no phone, no computer, and nothing using battery besides...

How Will Technology Influence our World in 2013? Part 2

Yesterday I started writing on how technology will change how we live within just the next year, but it will play such a large role that I could not even finish. Ergo I decided to make this a series. So, here’s some more ways our world will change. While you’re here, Give us a Google+ Plus one (+1) on the sidebar to the right....

Apple in 2013- The Near Future of Apple

The future has arrived; That is what we tell ourselves each year when the technology of the year arrives. But in 2013 we will see some really major lifestyle changes attributed to technology, and evidence suggests that much of that will be from Apple. Screw Movie theaters. Buy some microwaveable Popcorn and Catch a Flick in Bed. With devices like the new iPad and...