For many years the Internet has been an ingredient in my daily life. I remember back in 90’s during the first days of AOL, they offered a trial Internet offer of 500 or 1000 minutes. This was mailed out on a CD, the cutting edge media for those days. We used a modem to connect to AOL at blazing speeds of up to 12.5kb/second.
Not only the information technology (IT) was lacking, there was also a lack of intuition coming from developers and packagers of these products. At the age of twelve or thirteen the Internet started getting discovered and mined by my family, myself being the driving force of curiosity. Around the same time my brother and I discovered that you could re-order another CD from AOL, disconnect your current account when it got to the house, pop in the CD, and simply create a new user name to use the trial version again.
Many things have changed in the past fifteen years in IT. Cyber security is an issue on the minds of everyone from an identity theft victim, to a website designer and even the US State Department. Last year during the Russia/Georgia fiasco, a massive denial of service attack on Georgia’s information systems caused devastation of unmeasured proportions.
What does the future of IT hold for the developing world? Is it possible that we could ever have a Terminator 2 type scenario? The artificial intelligence (AI) is there. In fact we have been using drone planes (no pilot) to do a lot of bombing in the mountains of Afghanistan.
AI and bionics/prosthetics are of particular importance to me for two main reasons: strong opposition to the Iraq war, and that if this technology was affordable and readily available, it could dramatically change my father’s life.
When pops was a child, he was diagnosed with the Polio virus. Although this condition was eradicated right around that time, he did not escape its wrath. Doctors said he would never be able to walk. Through sheer determination and the great work of doctors and rehabilitators at the Shiners Hospital, he has been able to live a “healthy” lifestyle. He’s is fifty-four years old and he walks every day. Polio attacks the nerves on one side of the body, and so even though he is able to walk decently, he has never been able to use his left arm effectively.
I wanted to share a video with you about new developments by a bright group, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA teamed up with the creator of the Segway and scientific venture capitalist Dean Kamen in conjuncture with President Obama’s new $100 million research program, “Revolutionizing Prosthetics.”
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE NEWS ARTICLE AND VIDEO
Not only the information technology (IT) was lacking, there was also a lack of intuition coming from developers and packagers of these products. At the age of twelve or thirteen the Internet started getting discovered and mined by my family, myself being the driving force of curiosity. Around the same time my brother and I discovered that you could re-order another CD from AOL, disconnect your current account when it got to the house, pop in the CD, and simply create a new user name to use the trial version again.
Many things have changed in the past fifteen years in IT. Cyber security is an issue on the minds of everyone from an identity theft victim, to a website designer and even the US State Department. Last year during the Russia/Georgia fiasco, a massive denial of service attack on Georgia’s information systems caused devastation of unmeasured proportions.
What does the future of IT hold for the developing world? Is it possible that we could ever have a Terminator 2 type scenario? The artificial intelligence (AI) is there. In fact we have been using drone planes (no pilot) to do a lot of bombing in the mountains of Afghanistan.
AI and bionics/prosthetics are of particular importance to me for two main reasons: strong opposition to the Iraq war, and that if this technology was affordable and readily available, it could dramatically change my father’s life.
When pops was a child, he was diagnosed with the Polio virus. Although this condition was eradicated right around that time, he did not escape its wrath. Doctors said he would never be able to walk. Through sheer determination and the great work of doctors and rehabilitators at the Shiners Hospital, he has been able to live a “healthy” lifestyle. He’s is fifty-four years old and he walks every day. Polio attacks the nerves on one side of the body, and so even though he is able to walk decently, he has never been able to use his left arm effectively.
I wanted to share a video with you about new developments by a bright group, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA teamed up with the creator of the Segway and scientific venture capitalist Dean Kamen in conjuncture with President Obama’s new $100 million research program, “Revolutionizing Prosthetics.”
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE NEWS ARTICLE AND VIDEO
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