Plugged In, Life Without Batteries
Raymond Kent It’s not hard to get swept away in technology these days. It surrounds us at all times. From clothing and writing to mobile phones and laptops. Electronic communication in...
View ArticlePlugged In, Life Without Batteries (Revised)
We depend on technology to do many things today. More than most technologies, we depend on the ability to carry electricity with us, we depend on batteries. Without them, our world would be...
View ArticleJay Forrester in Brief
Raymond KentJay Forrester was born in 1918 and raised on a cattle ranch in central Nebraska. His family took his education seriously. He recalls riding a horse a mile and a half every day to get to 4th...
View ArticleUplink and Integrate
Raymond KentThe idea for this program came to me in an unusual way. Let it first be said, that both I and my phone are okay. It's possible that 120 volts were a little easier on me than they were on...
View ArticleGrowing Pains: Commercial Evolution of the Computer
Raymond KentComputers have not always held their place of esteem in consumer culture. There was a time when computers had to prove themselves. Not just to show that one was better than the other, but...
View ArticleFrom Echelon to Orwell
George Orwell's dystopian work 1984 is a view of the potential future of the world that is dominated by totalitarian regimes which use fear, pain, and technology to suppress any and all dissidence, no...
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