Saturday, September 20, 2008
technology trends
Sometimes the news can be very interesting, but sometimes a bit troubling. I enjoy hearing about the latest technology trends but sometimes I find that the world is just becoming too advanced. Don't get me wrong, when I first heard about pbx technology that was exciting news. PBX technology is great news for those who are in big business, this is like voip except on a better larger scale to service businesses that have much more advanced phone services than anything you or I could even imagine. Now they can get the same great service and a nice low price and all in a business phone service. It is really wonderful news. I remember at the inception of voip reading the voip telephony news and getting really excited about it. I know that sounds silly but I had been struggling for years to bring down the cost of my home phone. I had switched companies and switched plans and it seemed no matter what I did, short of disconnecting it all together, I couldn't get that bill down past about seventy bucks a month. Well, I must have been one of the first customers at this company, because as soon as I read about this great new phone technology I was in. I have been actually happy about paying my phone bill every month. Anytime I can pay a bill for less than twenty a month I am really happy to pay it.
Anyway, back to what I was originally saying about technology. I don't find phone technology scary, but some of the science and medical technology leaves me a bit uneasy. I just wonder how far science has really come. Have you ever noticed that you hear little blurbs about stuff in the news, then like magic it vanishes and you never hear about it again. Like for instance, I heard this one story about cloning and scientists being able to clone animals and people, and then I never heard another word about it again. I always wonder if the government says, wait a minute, you can't tell them about that. That is all I can imagine, the government tells the media to put a sock in it and they do. Best I can tell, there are way too many things that we don't know and that I find a little bit unnerving.
Mike @ 7:23 PM