Where would you be without your technology skills? Think about it. Digital convergence has affected various professions, narrowing the divide between what used to be totally different skill sets. 20 years ago if you needed a graphic designer, you would go to a large marketing agency. Today, you can choose from a huge selection of …
This is a great video from an excellent book by Steven Johnson called Where Good Ideas Come From.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. -Steve Jobs When Dr. Brown describes how he invented time travel in Back to the Future, it involves a singular “aha!” moment where he hit his head and experienced a vision. As much as the moment is meant to be a bit of a joke, that’s not far …
We’ve all seen them. The ubiquitous smiley face, with a colon for eyes, and the left parenthesis as a smile 🙂 It’s called an emoticon; a combination of the words emotion and icon. They are used everywhere in our virtual worlds, conveying gestures and moods that can’t normally be expressed in type. The most common …
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Do emoticons, internet slang, and texts affect the way we communicate? Even just 15 years ago, I wasn’t texting and web chatting at the rate I am today. It wasn’t that the technologies weren’t available – they were – but only a very few early adopters used them regularly. Today, however, nearly everyone I know …
