Category: Articles
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There Has To Be A Better Way Late night. Crickets and the hum from a too-old drive-through sign fill the air. A gas station with bright new LED fixtures and a sleepy local behind the counter. Maybe a zombie or something to make this picture I’m painting actually interesting. And the lone trucker, fueling up his…
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If You Build It, They Will Come Data drives our world. No decision is made without copious amounts of research being brought to the table. From your favorite new shows on Netflix, to the way Amazon delivers your packages more efficiently, to your grocery store stocking its shelves full of food. Knowing your next step…
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Growing up in the nineties was awesome. Video arcades were as mature as they would get, and console gaming platforms were working furiously to replace the experience. As a kid, I remember fondly playing martial arts video games and watching scary movies (the more gruesome, the better). The characters displayed grace and lethality as you…
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Aaron Crossman here. Not doing anything productive, but just daydreaming. Just thinking about the confluence of recent software, hardware, and IT service revolutions, and how they might again redefine the “computer”. Where the investments can start to be used to truly improve the human experience, and bottlenecks resulting from software and hardware limitations (and not…
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The internet has transformed everything it seems, and one way in particular is how we collect new information from around the world. Whereas before the internet we trusted journalists and crack interviewers to sort the facts and extract truth from the mystery, today the internet makes it possible for everyone to access the torrent of…
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Recently, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made headlines when it declared that the Internet will be classified as a public utility. This decision came amidst a whirlwind of public concern and industry turmoil over the physical fabric of the Internet. At the center of the debate was the ugly combination of aging 1980s internet backbone,…
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Since the dawn of man, we have been striven to find faster and better ways to communicate with one another. From the horseback to the semaphore line to the telegraph to the telephone, we ever so swiftly made understanding one other over great distances an essential part of society. It was not until the Bulletin…
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If you own a device connected to the internet, then it has at least a few parts; a hard drive to store information, a processor to modify the information, and a network card to enable it to communicate with other devices. Whatever the device may be – computer, phone, laptop, tablet, anything “smart home” –…
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What if we didn’t have to hate Mondays? What if the technology we are integrating into our everyday lives eventually merged together to create a digital support structure which would make Mondays – or any other day – more tolerable? “Impossible,” says the skeptic. Well, allow me to describe a possible scene: We don’t wake…