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How Were You 'Bit by the Bug' of Engineering & Technology?

What's the Gift that Led You to Give Back?

 

Gift us the story of your love for engineering & technology!

 

Every great love affair starts somewhere.  Did the sparks fly the moment of your first encounter with anything related to engineering or technology?image

 

Maybe you found it dull and boring at first? Did your mind go numb as you listened to concepts too complicated to understand and numbers too overwhelming to compute? Did your love blossom slowly over time, as you discovered layer upon layer of depth, becoming arrested by incomprehensible beauty, as you longingly gazed into the abyss of a perfect alignment of mathematical symmetry and artistic harmony?

 

Did it begin with an exchange of gifts?  Engineering and technology, as you know, offers many tantalizing gifts. Did you have a moment together?  A moment that would change the rest of your life forever!

 

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The end of the year is a time for giving and reflection. Gifts are exchanged, resolutions are made, and you look back on the past. You may even reach further and think of the pivotal moments that led you in the current direction of your life.

 

Whether its the gift of an experience, the gift of a piece of hardware or software, the gift of an idea or a person who inspired you, think of a gift that influenced you to pursue engineering & technology.

 

Here are some examples of the gifts that led others to give back:

 

The Gift of Wonder

 

Steve Wozniak, widely credited as the inventor of the Personal Computer, gave an interview where he credits a journal he found in a hall closet for his interest in engineering and technology: "...I found a journal in a hall closet with descriptions of binary numbering, logic gates and storage devices....When I discovered a 9-year old could understand this stuff I knew it would be my passion forever."image

 

An engineer may not get or even want attention for their accomplishments, its their job, to make things work even if it means pushing technology as far as it goes, making the seemingly impossible, possible. A good deal of selflessness is required in engineering, which in its way makes it sound a lot like giving.  For an engineer like Wozniak, it opened up a world of wonder for him that would change the world forever!

 

"I found a journal in a hall closet with descriptions of binary numbering, logic gates and storage devices....When I discovered a 9-year old could understand this stuff I knew it would be my passion forever."

 

The Gift of the Whole Brain

 

Many of the skills required to be a good engineer are well known and have been talked about a lot.  A lot of formal training in math and science is required to develop the rational thinking and logic required to solve real world problems. Not only are you expected to solve complex problems, you are asked to implement solutions in cost effective and practical ways.This brings us to another prized trait in engineers; the ability to think creatively. The ability to think big and use your imagination is highly valued, especially when it comes to solving complicated problems that may involve monetary or feasibility concerns. Anyone that has ever worked in tech knows you have to work within the constraints of the technology of the given time and even a perfect product will be obsolete before you know it.image

 

Although mostly known as one of the great artist, there's perhaps no better exemplier what can be accomplished in engineering using a whole-brain approach than Leonardo Di Vinci: "To develop a complete mind: study the science of art; study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."  In addition to being an accomplished architectural engineer, Da Vinci's investigation of human anatomy helped lay the early foundation of the biomedical engineering field.image

 

"To develop a complete mind: study the science of art; study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."

 

 

The Gift of Diversity

 

In a world ruled by seemingly arbitrary lines. Engineering and technology follow the laws of physics and if you can master those laws and bend technology to your will, you find it's the product of your work that matters and this gives opportunity to people from diverse backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses.  The appeal of technology and engineering for people in all corners of the world is that regardless of your gender, race, family, background, or social status, your contribution has value because of where you come from. That is why some of the great technology companies and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) educators are at the forefront of recognizing the need to promote a diverse and inclusive environment.image

 

Engineers and technologists recognize the value diversity brings to the work they are able to accomplish, if you are going to invent and innovate solutions that solve the needs of everyone you're only going to succeed by bringing in diverse perspectives. Education in engineering is now focused on being more diverse because, as explained in an article about the changing face of engineering education, that drives innovation.

 

The Gift of Curiosity

 

Once you understand the mathematical and mechanistic way everything works you open doors, that lead you to other doors, that lead to still more doors. Engineers use quantitative analysis to understand and model the world around them. They witness the interplay between science and technology, how science advances technology, and vice versa. In a profile on Live Science, Maurizio Porfiri, who holds a PH.D. in engineering mechanics credits the literature he read growing up for the curiosity needed to excel in engineering: "Being creative and being curious is more important than being the smartest or best at equations if you want to be a great engineer or researcher."image

 

Porfiri was included in Popular Science's Brilliant 10 in 2012, an elite group of scientists under 40 who stands to dramatically impact their field, despite being a self-described "okay student" as well as the recipient of the 2008 NSF Career Award.  In engineering and technology, curiosity is what drives you to learn new programming languages, experiment with new systems, and come up with novel solutions to solve problems.

 

 

"Being creative and being curious is more important than being the smartest or best at equations if you want to be a great engineer or researcher."

 

The Gift of a Better Tomorrow

 

There are many pressing needs in the world in fields like technology including energy, sustainability, transportation, education, healthcare, food, and the environment. While a goal of many disciplines in science is to understand reality, the ultimate goal of engineering and technology is to create a better tomorrow that leaves the world a better a place.image

 

The work of engineers is everywhere.  In hospitals and clinics there is manufacturing pharmaceuticals, designing intravenous infusion pumps, programming electronic medical records. Biomedical engineers are as much a part of patient care as nurses and physicians. Meanwhile, mechanical engineers contribute to transportation; environmental engineers contribute to sustainability and energy; and electrical engineers contribute to communications.

 

The Gift of Generosity

 

Perhaps the greatest gift of engineering and technology is that it can not only make life more comfortable for everyone, but it can also save lives. An understanding of engineering and technology can be used to serve the public and address global challenges by putting you in a position to help others using your skills.  Environmental Engineer Lilia Abron, founder of Peer Consultants and Peer Africa, credits the book Silent Sprint by Rachel Carson, as the inspiration behind her sanitary engineering vocation.image

 

Lilia Abron runs a program that unifies energy efficiency and sustainable housing construction, along with economic development, to create sustainable human settlements.  She tells her alumni bulletin: "It bothered me to see people living without any power to change their lives, and government funds being wasted by construction companies just trying to make money. I told my business partner, 'I know how to solve this.'" The book Silent Spring, first published in 1962, is also the inspiration for the environmental movement that led to the EPA (US Environmental Protection Agency).image

 

"It bothered me to see people living without any power to change their lives, and government funds being wasted by construction companies just trying to make money. I told my business partner, 'I know how to solve this.'"

 

The Gift that Kept On Giving

 

There's perhaps no better way to succeed in life than to love what you do because then you'll never you'll never "work" a day in your life. Educators are finding that key to developing children's interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) may lie in making STEM applicable to everyday life, making it more interesting and hands on, and emphasizing the process over results. If you developed a love for Science, Technology, and Math you could probably point to examples in your life that fall into one of those categories.  It could be a HEATH kit you received when you were a child, your first computer, working with your Dad in the garage, a science fair, or any number of experiences that you can point to as having influenced your love for engineering or technology.

 

You've heard from others.  Now, tell us what sparked YOUR interest in Engineering or Technology!  Was it a gift you received?  What was the gift?  Do you remember how old you were when the moment happened!  Do you remember where you were when it happened?  Tell us what it means to you now. Everyone has to start from somewhere, with that "eureka" moment. Were you working one day and suddenly realized, engineering and technology is where you want to spend the rest of your life.  Engineering and technology are definitely a worthwhile life-long companions. Others have always known they wanted to be with engineering and technology. What's your story?

 

Love at First Bite?  Tell Us How Your Love Affair with Engineering or Technology Began!

 

Love is a gift (I'm reliably informed by every rom com movie ever made). So we want to lavish technology gifts upon you, due to your love of technology (recipients of the freebies will be selected on the quality of their storytelling chops)!

Not only that, but we'll give you something to pass along to a techno-noobie to spread your love of electronics and inspire the next generation of engineers, like ripples in a solder bath.

 

Here's how to join in:

  • Register for free here at element14.com, or log in if you're already registered.
  • Tell the story of what got you hooked on electronics and tech in the comments below, leaving no lyric unwaxed!
  • Make sure your postal address and phone number are filled out in your element14 profile (if it's not, we can't send you anything even if we wanted to!). Click your name at the very top of the screen to open the  drop-down menu, followed by "Edit Profile + Privacy", and fill in the details so you're eligible for freebies.
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  • The story of how I became hooked on technology is a long one, covering nearly 40 years.  But, I’ll do my best to condense it into something readable.  Sorry, If I am a bit long-winded!  This is much like creating a resume; how can you condense 30+ years of work into 2 pages?  Anyway, here goes ...

     

    I began my interest in technology at a very early age.  My Dad got me interested in electronics when I was about 10 years old.  He wasn’t a very good teacher, but I was intrigued by the things he was doing and I liked doing them with him.  LED’s and a 555 timer could keep me dazzled for hours.  And Forrest Mims was quite readable and understandable, even for me.

     

    Wanting to take electronics further, but not having the funds to do so, I discovered that the garbage bins out back of the IBM building were full of discarded circuit boards that were loaded with digital ICs sitting in IC sockets.  An enterprising kid such as myself could save a lot of money by popping those chips off the boards carefully.  I made most of my early circuits this way.  Later on I discovered an electronics store that sold kits and parts at reasonable prices, and my allowance was suddenly less of a hindrance to my interests.  I bought an Apple IIe kit and cut my teeth learning how to solder all the parts on.  It was very cool when it was finished and worked!  Now I needed to learn how to program.  That led to a Commodore Vic 20, and later a Commodore 64.  I still enjoyed dumpster-diving, though.  At least I did until IBM caught on and started locking their bins.  Hmmph.

     

    When I was in the tenth grade at High School, they introduced their very first computer course.  We used PET computers that had, I believe, about 2k of RAM and a cassette tape storage device similar to one I had used with my Vic 20.  Then came the 5.25” single-sided floppy disks that would store 170kb.  After that, in a big step forward, came a 10MB (yup, Megabyte) hard disk that we shared by using a manual data switch to connect it to our PC when we needed to save or load a program.  At that time, I actually knew more about digital electronics and logic than my teacher did, even after the school sent him on courses to learn about it (it was just so new).  There were some other guys in the class that were really into computers as well and they knew how to program.  Together we used assembly language to create a monochromatic version of Pac-Man that used ASCII graphics and the arrow keys to great effect.  We had a lot of fun with that.  Unfortunately, that was the only such course available in the school and there was nothing for us in the latter grades.  Not being very strong in math, I was unable to prepare myself adequately for a degree in computer science and failed miserably at it in University, so I switched to Sociology instead.  There were no other tech courses in existence that I knew of, and I still wasn’t thinking about college.  Sadly, during my time in my High School, the thinking of the day was; if you are academically adept you go to University; if you aren’t that adept you go to college; and if you are just short of an idiot you go into the trades (boy, did they get that wrong!).  Thus, I never even considered anything else but university and Sociology was about all I could handle at that level.

     

    During my time in university I had to use computers, even if I wasn’t learning about them specifically.  That led me to learn of the Bit-Net, the predecessor to the Internet that was used by academic institutions.  After learning that I could send a text message to a student (and occasionally ALL of them by accident) in another university, such as the University of Heidleberg, Germany or the University of Tokyo in Japan, I became fascinated by the fact that two computers could actually TALK to each other over vast distances.  I was fascinated.  I tried to learn everything I could about this and bought my first modem which allowed me to communicate with the university from my home at a whopping 300 baud – a huge leap from the previous standard of 75!  30 years later, my home network currently enjoys 35MB down, and 3.5MB up.  Not directly comparable, I know.  But you get the point.

     

    Before I finished my degree, I was introduced to the IT Director at one of the largest law firms in the country by a friend of mine who had made it into Computer Science.  This fellow said he thought I would make an excellent IT Analyst, and he offered me my first tech job.  I took it.  I fixed printers, which were networked.  This allowed me to learn a great deal more about networking and data communications.  After I lost that job, I wasn’t able to work directly with networks again until I went to college at the age of 30, but I was still fascinated so I studied Computer Programming and Networking.  After graduation, the college helped me land a job with a large telecommunications company that provided a data network connection to the home via coaxial cable.  I answered phones in the call centre and solved technical issues.  At home, I scrounged together a 19” half-rack and every used PC I could lay my hands on.  I ran linux on all of them, networked them and ran everything I could get my hands on; Border Gateway Protocol servers, Proxy servers, Squid servers (intrusion detection), Apache web servers.  You name it, and I tried it and learned as much as I could as quickly and as deeply as I could.  It paid off.  In two years, I rose through the ranks to become a project manager of a team of 21 techs and got involved in some very cool projects like implementing an Interactive Voice Response system that was the first to answer incoming customer calls.  Not long after, I bumped my head on the ceiling.  Realising that I could go no further with that company, I took a job with a large utility company as an IT Analyst and helped them replace their entire data network with newer equipment.  I had to work closely with the engineers from the telecom company providing the new equipment and, after doing so for a number of months, one of them was promoted to management.  He offered me an opportunity that I could not refuse and I joined them only five months after starting with the utility company.  Just a side note; my manager at the time (utility company) had no idea how to process the paperwork for me to exit the company as no one had ever quit the company in his 25 years there.  It was a union environment, and no one really had to work for a living if they didn’t want to.  Who would quit that?  Me.

     

    Now working for the new telecom company, I found that despite having over 100,000 employees worldwide, the engineering team that I was a part of operated much like its own little business.  There were only nine of us and we were constantly on the move, and I was constantly learning.  I LOVED that job and that team!  Unfortunately, little did we know that the higher-ups had been engaged in some questionable activities for some time at that point, and the company went into a tail-spin.  I was let go with tens of thousands of others as part of an emergency down-sizing in an effort to save the company, but to no avail.  The company itself ceased to exist not long after that.  Once again, it was time to go back to school.

     

    Having realised that I was well suited to engineering and technology, a fact that my High School counsellors were incapable of noticing, I decided to stick with it and went to college.  From that point onward my life has been a cycle of employment, unemployment, school, and back to employment (including self-employment) as the tech industry has changed, the economy has changed, and I have changed.  For a guy who was told that my generation would not see the cradle-to-grave work life that my father did, but rather would have two to three different careers, I am now on my eleventh different technical career!  I have also gone to college to study technical subjects such Computer Programming & Networking, Robotics & Automation, Biomedical Engineering Technology, Electronics Technology, and Energy Systems Engineering Technology.  I also went through a four-year apprenticeship as a Millwright which I enjoyed immensely; though due to a military injury (did I mention that I was in the military?) I am no longer able to work as a Millwright.  I am currently considering another trip to college for Electrical Engineering Technology (quite different from Electronics Technology) as I work with a company that does electrical sub-station design and maintenance and I’d like to learn, in detail, some of the more esoteric elements of this field.  I am also a Certified Thermographer and very much enjoy the science of this discipline in general, but especially as it is applied to the electrical field.  I am even looking at learning about ultrasonic technology, as applied to the electrical field, because it is really cool.  Oh yeah, and it could be useful, too!

     

    Long story short (yeah, I know it’s a little late for that); I started out loving the fact that technology was something that I could share with my father, and ended up loving the fact that technology is something I can indulge in anytime I want and in just about any way that I want, and I love this!  Case in point; I have always been blown away by what can be made with a CNC machine.  Thanks to YouTube, and the Internet in general, I was able to build one in my basement!  I can design my own stuff, and make it in my own house, using software and hardware that would have been ABSOLUTELY out of reach for any but the largest and richest of companies when I was a boy.  Today, we have open-source software, open-source hardware, community versions of top-of-the-line software, inexpensive hardware, 3D printers, laser cutters, hobby (and not-so-hobby) scale CNC machines, etc., etc., all available to the creative and techy minds out there for such reasonable costs that they are driving real change in our society.  Suppliers of such technology and the parts and meterials required for their use, such as element14 (nice plug, eh?), also provide community forums (such as this one) where these folks can exchange ideas and information.  This is where the real power for change lies.  And all you need is an internet connection and the desire to use it.

     

    The ever increasing facilitation of creativity for those working in their kitchens, basements, garages, and college labs is INCREDIBLE and I can’t wait to see what comes of it.  Just you go to a MAKER FAIRE to see exactly what I’m talking about.  If you think the world is full of problems, go to one of these events and you will see the very people who are going to solve them.  And that includes you and me, thanks to the pervasiveness and availability of technology, AND the information and education regarding its use that is so freely available.  With all of this in mind, how can you NOT love technology??

     

    If you are still reading this, you deserve a beer.  Cheers!

     

    Jeff

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  • The story of how I became hooked on technology is a long one, covering nearly 40 years.  But, I’ll do my best to condense it into something readable.  Sorry, If I am a bit long-winded!  This is much like creating a resume; how can you condense 30+ years of work into 2 pages?  Anyway, here goes ...

     

    I began my interest in technology at a very early age.  My Dad got me interested in electronics when I was about 10 years old.  He wasn’t a very good teacher, but I was intrigued by the things he was doing and I liked doing them with him.  LED’s and a 555 timer could keep me dazzled for hours.  And Forrest Mims was quite readable and understandable, even for me.

     

    Wanting to take electronics further, but not having the funds to do so, I discovered that the garbage bins out back of the IBM building were full of discarded circuit boards that were loaded with digital ICs sitting in IC sockets.  An enterprising kid such as myself could save a lot of money by popping those chips off the boards carefully.  I made most of my early circuits this way.  Later on I discovered an electronics store that sold kits and parts at reasonable prices, and my allowance was suddenly less of a hindrance to my interests.  I bought an Apple IIe kit and cut my teeth learning how to solder all the parts on.  It was very cool when it was finished and worked!  Now I needed to learn how to program.  That led to a Commodore Vic 20, and later a Commodore 64.  I still enjoyed dumpster-diving, though.  At least I did until IBM caught on and started locking their bins.  Hmmph.

     

    When I was in the tenth grade at High School, they introduced their very first computer course.  We used PET computers that had, I believe, about 2k of RAM and a cassette tape storage device similar to one I had used with my Vic 20.  Then came the 5.25” single-sided floppy disks that would store 170kb.  After that, in a big step forward, came a 10MB (yup, Megabyte) hard disk that we shared by using a manual data switch to connect it to our PC when we needed to save or load a program.  At that time, I actually knew more about digital electronics and logic than my teacher did, even after the school sent him on courses to learn about it (it was just so new).  There were some other guys in the class that were really into computers as well and they knew how to program.  Together we used assembly language to create a monochromatic version of Pac-Man that used ASCII graphics and the arrow keys to great effect.  We had a lot of fun with that.  Unfortunately, that was the only such course available in the school and there was nothing for us in the latter grades.  Not being very strong in math, I was unable to prepare myself adequately for a degree in computer science and failed miserably at it in University, so I switched to Sociology instead.  There were no other tech courses in existence that I knew of, and I still wasn’t thinking about college.  Sadly, during my time in my High School, the thinking of the day was; if you are academically adept you go to University; if you aren’t that adept you go to college; and if you are just short of an idiot you go into the trades (boy, did they get that wrong!).  Thus, I never even considered anything else but university and Sociology was about all I could handle at that level.

     

    During my time in university I had to use computers, even if I wasn’t learning about them specifically.  That led me to learn of the Bit-Net, the predecessor to the Internet that was used by academic institutions.  After learning that I could send a text message to a student (and occasionally ALL of them by accident) in another university, such as the University of Heidleberg, Germany or the University of Tokyo in Japan, I became fascinated by the fact that two computers could actually TALK to each other over vast distances.  I was fascinated.  I tried to learn everything I could about this and bought my first modem which allowed me to communicate with the university from my home at a whopping 300 baud – a huge leap from the previous standard of 75!  30 years later, my home network currently enjoys 35MB down, and 3.5MB up.  Not directly comparable, I know.  But you get the point.

     

    Before I finished my degree, I was introduced to the IT Director at one of the largest law firms in the country by a friend of mine who had made it into Computer Science.  This fellow said he thought I would make an excellent IT Analyst, and he offered me my first tech job.  I took it.  I fixed printers, which were networked.  This allowed me to learn a great deal more about networking and data communications.  After I lost that job, I wasn’t able to work directly with networks again until I went to college at the age of 30, but I was still fascinated so I studied Computer Programming and Networking.  After graduation, the college helped me land a job with a large telecommunications company that provided a data network connection to the home via coaxial cable.  I answered phones in the call centre and solved technical issues.  At home, I scrounged together a 19” half-rack and every used PC I could lay my hands on.  I ran linux on all of them, networked them and ran everything I could get my hands on; Border Gateway Protocol servers, Proxy servers, Squid servers (intrusion detection), Apache web servers.  You name it, and I tried it and learned as much as I could as quickly and as deeply as I could.  It paid off.  In two years, I rose through the ranks to become a project manager of a team of 21 techs and got involved in some very cool projects like implementing an Interactive Voice Response system that was the first to answer incoming customer calls.  Not long after, I bumped my head on the ceiling.  Realising that I could go no further with that company, I took a job with a large utility company as an IT Analyst and helped them replace their entire data network with newer equipment.  I had to work closely with the engineers from the telecom company providing the new equipment and, after doing so for a number of months, one of them was promoted to management.  He offered me an opportunity that I could not refuse and I joined them only five months after starting with the utility company.  Just a side note; my manager at the time (utility company) had no idea how to process the paperwork for me to exit the company as no one had ever quit the company in his 25 years there.  It was a union environment, and no one really had to work for a living if they didn’t want to.  Who would quit that?  Me.

     

    Now working for the new telecom company, I found that despite having over 100,000 employees worldwide, the engineering team that I was a part of operated much like its own little business.  There were only nine of us and we were constantly on the move, and I was constantly learning.  I LOVED that job and that team!  Unfortunately, little did we know that the higher-ups had been engaged in some questionable activities for some time at that point, and the company went into a tail-spin.  I was let go with tens of thousands of others as part of an emergency down-sizing in an effort to save the company, but to no avail.  The company itself ceased to exist not long after that.  Once again, it was time to go back to school.

     

    Having realised that I was well suited to engineering and technology, a fact that my High School counsellors were incapable of noticing, I decided to stick with it and went to college.  From that point onward my life has been a cycle of employment, unemployment, school, and back to employment (including self-employment) as the tech industry has changed, the economy has changed, and I have changed.  For a guy who was told that my generation would not see the cradle-to-grave work life that my father did, but rather would have two to three different careers, I am now on my eleventh different technical career!  I have also gone to college to study technical subjects such Computer Programming & Networking, Robotics & Automation, Biomedical Engineering Technology, Electronics Technology, and Energy Systems Engineering Technology.  I also went through a four-year apprenticeship as a Millwright which I enjoyed immensely; though due to a military injury (did I mention that I was in the military?) I am no longer able to work as a Millwright.  I am currently considering another trip to college for Electrical Engineering Technology (quite different from Electronics Technology) as I work with a company that does electrical sub-station design and maintenance and I’d like to learn, in detail, some of the more esoteric elements of this field.  I am also a Certified Thermographer and very much enjoy the science of this discipline in general, but especially as it is applied to the electrical field.  I am even looking at learning about ultrasonic technology, as applied to the electrical field, because it is really cool.  Oh yeah, and it could be useful, too!

     

    Long story short (yeah, I know it’s a little late for that); I started out loving the fact that technology was something that I could share with my father, and ended up loving the fact that technology is something I can indulge in anytime I want and in just about any way that I want, and I love this!  Case in point; I have always been blown away by what can be made with a CNC machine.  Thanks to YouTube, and the Internet in general, I was able to build one in my basement!  I can design my own stuff, and make it in my own house, using software and hardware that would have been ABSOLUTELY out of reach for any but the largest and richest of companies when I was a boy.  Today, we have open-source software, open-source hardware, community versions of top-of-the-line software, inexpensive hardware, 3D printers, laser cutters, hobby (and not-so-hobby) scale CNC machines, etc., etc., all available to the creative and techy minds out there for such reasonable costs that they are driving real change in our society.  Suppliers of such technology and the parts and meterials required for their use, such as element14 (nice plug, eh?), also provide community forums (such as this one) where these folks can exchange ideas and information.  This is where the real power for change lies.  And all you need is an internet connection and the desire to use it.

     

    The ever increasing facilitation of creativity for those working in their kitchens, basements, garages, and college labs is INCREDIBLE and I can’t wait to see what comes of it.  Just you go to a MAKER FAIRE to see exactly what I’m talking about.  If you think the world is full of problems, go to one of these events and you will see the very people who are going to solve them.  And that includes you and me, thanks to the pervasiveness and availability of technology, AND the information and education regarding its use that is so freely available.  With all of this in mind, how can you NOT love technology??

     

    If you are still reading this, you deserve a beer.  Cheers!

     

    Jeff

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