Embrace Technology
Andy Pedisich
Technotics, Inc.
© 2013 Technotics, Inc. All rights reserved.
Some Notes About This Session…
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This session was developed in Microsoft Powerpoint
It is available for download on my blog in both Powerpoint and
PDF format for easy reading
 http://www.andypedisich.com
Thank you for the opportunity to speak at Medford Leas!
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What We’ll Cover …
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Understanding the relatively rapid growth of technology
Building the Internet and the World Wide Web
How technology and the Internet has changed the world
Using technology and preserving family fundamentals
Exploring the highs and lows of Social Media
Determining which new technology is right for you
10 Things Our Kids/Grandkids Won’t Know About
Wrapping up
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The Birth of Modern Technology
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In 1946, ENIAC was born!
 The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
 Built at the University of Pennsylvania
 That was way before Facebook
 But the start of something really big
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The first 15 years of technology developed rather slowly
 Which gave me a chance to grow up a little
 I was soon 11, and old enough to get into trouble
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Small Beginnings
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In 1961 I saw a computer face to face
It happened at an “open house” visitor’s day at
 Brookhaven National Laboratory
 A multipurpose research institution funded by
the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
 This is an aerial shot of the lab
 Note the cool cyclotron particle accelerator
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A Challenge for a New Mind
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They had finally created something I could appreciate
 A computerized game of Tic Tac Toe
This picture doesn’t do it justice
 It was 9 TV sets strapped together
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Me Against the Machine
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After waiting in a long line of other children, it was my turn
 I was beaten by the computer
Then I asked to play a second time
 The scientist running the game looked at me, then looked at the
line of kids, and said, “OK. One more time.”
 It was a tie game
I never forgot that moment – it was an “aha” moment
 The computer was not going to win
 I was going to rule the computer
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Time Passes
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Flash forward to 55 years later
 I am a business major, who became an English major who
studied Beowulf and Milton’s Paradise Lost
 Only to become a computer scientist working with
messaging and collaboration systems
 All because I embraced the technology I saw that fateful
day in 1961
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Fun Facts About Growing Up in the 50’s and 60’s
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Phone facts:
 My first phone number was 8201
 The phone had a very short cord – possibly 5 feet
 There was a special chair next to a small table where the
telephone was kept
 There was a special pad where you could take notes
 There was an aquarium next to the phone so you could have
something interesting to look at while you talked
The only way you had a phone in the car was when you were
moving to a new house and were taking it with you
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What We’ll Cover …
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Understanding the relatively rapid growth of technology
Building the Internet and the World Wide Web
How technology and the Internet has changed the world
Using technology and preserving family fundamentals
Exploring the highs and lows of Social Media
Determining which new technology is right for you
10 Things Our Kids/Grandkids Won’t Know About
Wrapping up
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The Building of the Network
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Even though computers were not a new thing in the 50’s there
were very few of them around
 Computers were still very large and mostly used for the military
Then in 1969 the world's first multiple-site computer network -was created
 It was called Arpanet and it was the great grandfather to what
we now call the Internet
 That was 44 years ago
The National Science Foundation says that during the 1960’s
there were only 4 computers that used this network
 http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/index.jsp
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Here’s What the First Four Users Looked Like
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The first four users were giant main-frame computers
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Networks and Personal Computers
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Flash forward another 11 years to the 1980s
 Now it’s starting to get personal
Companies like Atari, Apple, Commodore and IBM started making
small affordable computers
 Designed to help people with everyday tasks
 Typing letters
 Balancing checkbooks
 Playing games
By the end of the 80s, “personal computers” or PCs were
becoming fairly common in homes
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We Are Hooked Up Into a Larger World
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Millions of workers’ jobs revolved around a desktop PC
If you were into technology in the 80’s you probably had an
account on Compuserve or America On Line
 Your computer needed to make a phone call using a device
called a Modem to reach those services
 But you could send mail, play games, and have discussions
with a wide audience of other technophiles
The “Bulletin Board” was a place you could share your opinions
with other subscribers
The National Science Foundation says that during the 80s there
were 159,000 computers on the Internet
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Come the 90s and the Big Switch to the Internet
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The 1990s were the decade when the world really came online
The Internet was slowly coming on line
 Colleges were beginning to provide access to the Internet
 And data from all over the world became available
 All over the world
There were still relatively few people who had access to it
 And that was only 10 years after the introduction of the PC
 And only a short 23 years ago
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Along Came a Spider – the Web
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Then in 1991 the first web page was launched
 We now call this the world wide web
It made it possible for users to easily share text and images and
multimedia files
 The Internet browser was created
The uptake on this new phenomenon was amazing
 People came on-line by the hundreds of millions
 The new digital frontier came of age
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The Internet Grew Like Weeds in your Garden
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The National Science Foundation said this about the 1990s and
the Internet
 “Entire new industries sprang up (and in some cases crashed
back down) as humanity embraces the biggest technological
breakthrough since the Industrial Revolution.”
 “The Information Age had arrived and the world would never
be the same.”
During the 1990s, NSF history says the number of users on the
Internet grew to 248 million!
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2000 and Beyond
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Networks were improved to support the business of the Internet
People started making their careers out of working either on or for
the Internet
The Internet has continually improved in both how it works and
how we use it
 It’s faster, it’s mobile and on our phones and all other devices
 From televisions to refrigerators, just about everything you
can think of uses the Internet
During the decade following the turn of the century The Internet
grew to more than 1,200,000,000 users
 Billions of people are on the Internet
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The Internet in 2007
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Where We Are Today
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As of June 2012 more than 2.4 billion people have used the
Internet
 That’s over 1/3rd of the world’s population of humans
And things will just get better
 The new generation of young people will take it to the next level
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First – Another Fun Fact about the Fifties
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Flashback to the 50s before modern washers and dryers
This could have been a picture from our kitchen
 I think we had a Whirlpool washing machine
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What We’ll Cover …
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Understanding the relatively rapid growth of technology
Building the Internet and the World Wide Web
How technology and the Internet has changed the world
Using technology and preserving family fundamentals
Exploring the highs and lows of Social Media
Determining which new technology is right for you
10 Things Our Kids/Grandkids Won’t Know About
Wrapping up
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The Incredible Speed of Communications
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Enables us to communicate with people around the world in
seconds
Picture this… I’m on the phone with a friend In London
 I send him an email with a new picture of our grandkids
 10 seconds go by
 “Did you get it yet? No? How about now?”
 “There must be something wrong with the Internet!”
 We are amazed when it takes more than a few seconds
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The Value of Instant Communication
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Enabling fast communications was especially useful during the
Arab Spring
There is much debate about the role of Social Media like
Facebook and Twitter
 Were they the main instigator of the uprisings, or just a tool?
No matter which, the perception of Social Media has changed
 From being a cute way to connect with friends
 To a powerful communications tool
 Allowing people to stay updated about protests
 Helping protesters stay organized
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A Far Reaching Effect of Social Media
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Nearly 9 out of 10 Egyptians and Tunisians surveyed in March of
2011 said they used Facebook to organize protests or spread
awareness about them
All but one of the protests that originated on Facebook became a
reality on the streets
 “…Facebook and Twitter abetted if not enabled the historic
region-wide uprisings of early 2011.”
 http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/facebook-andtwitter-key-to-arab-spring-uprisings-report
The government reacted by shutting down access to Facebook
and Twitter
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A Force That Seems Unstoppable
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But Government attempts to ban these sites ended up backfiring
 Over a quarter of those polled said the blocking disrupted their
efforts to organize and communicate
 But more than half (56 per cent in Egypt and 59 per cent in
Tunisia) said blocking the sites had a positive effect
 Blocking motivated them to press on and mobilize
newcomers
The report said that efforts to block out information ended up
 “spurring people to be more active, decisive and to find ways to
be more creative about communicating and organizing”
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Twitter Hacked
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North Korea opened its Twitter account in 2010
 It has more than 13,000 followers
The North uses the social media to praise its system and leaders
 And to repeat commentaries sent out by North's official Korean
Central News Agency.
In early April of 2013, The North's Uriminzokkiri Twitter and Flickr
accounts stopped sending out that kind of content
 They had been hacked!
 Uncomplimentary pictures of North's leader Kim Jong Un
were posted instead, along with negative language
 This does not help to de-intensify the situation
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Countries Conduct Warfare Using Social Media
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The Washington Post reported this in late 2011
 http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-1218/world/35284991_1_isafmedia-abalkhi-social-media
 “Terrorist networks are spreading their message, recruiting
sympathizers and are connecting operationally online,”
subcommittee chairman Patrick Meehan (R-Pa.) said in
opening remarks, according to a transcript
In tweets, the Taliban calls foreign troops “invaders” and Afghan
security forces “puppets” or “cowards”
 Reports of battlefield victories are grossly exaggerated, U.S.
military officials say.
 “Most of the stuff we see is propaganda”
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Al-Qaeda Faction Takes Battle to Twitter
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This is from an Associated Press news release
 “Battered by a French-led military campaign in Mali,
al-Qaeda’s North African arm is trying something new to
stay relevant: Twitter.”
 “The PR campaign by the terror network seeks to tap into social
grievances and champion mainstream causes such as
unemployment, all in bid to reverse decline and win new
followers.”
 Note: As much as we’d like to, we cannot control what
happens on the Internet and the World Wide Web
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On the lighter side, “Hey, wuts up. I’m in Rome. Where u b?”
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Six million people are now tracking Pope Francis on Twitter
 Follow the Pope on his Twitter Account @pontifex
 The Spanish version is reported to be the fastest-growing of the
account’s nine languages, with 2.046 million followers
 http://www.firstpost.com/world/pope-francis-now-has-hugefollowing-of-6-mn-on-twitter-723701.html
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And in the “I Can’t Believe It’s Come to This” Category
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Library of Congress has amassed 170 billion tweets
 Since it began collecting an archive of all Twitter messages in
2010 until this article in January 2013
 And it’s still collecting them!
 http://news.yahoo.com/library-congress-amassed-170billion-tweets-212325910.html#
Twitter is donating its archive to the library
 Going back to the first one posted in 2006
 That means at least 3,000 tweets by me will be
in the Library of Congress
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Protect My Precious Tweets
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Library Director of Communications Gayle Osterberg wrote in a
blog post that the volume of tweets it receives has grown
 From 140 million daily in February 2011 to nearly half a billion
tweets each day in late 2012
Librarians have been developing a system to preserve and
organize the collection
 Now the library is shifting its focus to handle the technical
challenges of making such a massive archive available to
researchers
Do you have a
twitter account?
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What We’ll Cover …
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Understanding the relatively rapid growth of technology
Building the Internet and the World Wide Web
How technology and the Internet has changed the world
Using technology and preserving family fundamentals
Exploring the highs and lows of Social Media
Determining which new technology is right for you
10 Things Our Kids/Grandkids Won’t Know About
Wrapping up
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Technology Has Affected Our Family Relationships
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Some of the changes are actually positive
The ability to stay in touch over SMS
 Short Message Service, or Texting
 In some ways keeps our children and grandchildren safer
 We know where they are
 And when they need to be picked up
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Texting is Misunderstood
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Most schools now have an SMS emergency notification system
A study at Massachusetts General Hospital says that texting gives
teens “optimal distance” from their parents
 This allows for communications that wouldn’t otherwise
happen
 Just not while you’re driving
 Never ever when you’re driving
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The Convenience of Phones
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If someone had told me in 1971 that everyone would carry their
own phone, I would have laughed
 And now some of us have two devices
 A pad and a smart phone
I never dreamed that we would become so dependent on phones
 Since the phones have become “smart” we have additional
interruptions like texting, email, games and web sites
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Our Challenges
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Use technology but preserve humanity
The phone must be recognized for what it does to the continuity
of daily life
 It interrupts it
The phone seems to have a higher priority than face-to-face
human contact
 How many times have you heard someone say this when their
phone chimes in, with whatever ridiculous ring tone they have
 “Excuse me, I’ve got to take this.”
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Phone Call Madness
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We’ve got to teach our families and closest friends how this
“courtesy” thing really works
This all should be based around the fact that there is this great
technology that helps us when we can’t get to the phone on time
 It’s called “voice mail”
Clearly there need to be rules
 No phone calls during meals
 And certainly none taken at a table
 Human conversation trumps an incoming call
 Courtesy should be expected even in public places like
shopping malls and parks
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Then and Now
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20 years ago when I was peaking at conferences we used portable
phones the size of shoeboxes
 In a room with 100 people, it was a lock that 15 people had a
huge portable phone
 And 10 of them would take phone calls during a presentation
 With very loud ringers – not custom tones
 The phone would ring
 Loud conversations would ensue
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Hear and Now
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That situation has changed radically
Now, everyone in the room has a phone
 The vast majority are sensible enough to turn it down
 And to leave the room if they must take the call
I am delighted to see that change
 We still have to make formal announcements before live
performances and before the screening of a movie
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Electronics and Transportation
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Let’s get back to the family
A car is a great place to have a talk with your family
 Not if you argue – that’s a distraction
Some think a video screen is a great distraction for young
passengers
 While it beats having to answer this question 100 times
 “Are we there yet?”
 Video screens in cars are one more tool to dampen
communications
If you car has video, clearly state the rules of engagement for
when it is used
 Such as only for use during trips lasting more than 3 hours
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Consider this experiment
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From The Chronicle of Higher Education
 http://chronicle.com/article/Thoreaus-CellphoneExperiment/125962/
 Thoreau's Cell Phone Experiment
 College Professor William Major
 University of Hartford's Hillyer College
Here’s the premise
 “I took their smartphones, and the world continued to spin.”
 “I took their BlackBerries, and that did not lead to chaos.”
 “If I could have, I would have taken their Internet access, too,
just to see the looks on their faces.”
 And he took them away for 5 days
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Can Imagine the Peacefullness?
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It’s Inspired by Henry David Thoreau's calls for simplicity and
solitude after covering Walden in a sophomore English class
 The students are generally in favor of conserving, spending
less, and (theoretically) living their lives with fewer things
 As long they are not asked to do too much
They balk when Thoreau asks them to spend time alone, away
from family and friends: disconnected, separated, out of touch
 They feared solitude
 "I'm not sure how people made it through the weekends
without cellphones," one student wrote.
Here’s how it ended up
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Some Student Reactions to No Phones
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Several mentioned noticing the campus for the first time
 That there are trees, plaques, and signage
 And all manner of people in their midst
 Many of whom are texting or talking on their phones even as
they walk with their friends
Several students complained that they had missed their morning
classes because I had their alarms
 One or two said their significant others were fuming mad
because they weren't answering texts
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She’s Not There
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Conversely, one male wrote that the "best part of not having a
cellphone was freedom from my girlfriend.“
Not freedom to look for another girlfriend, he hinted, but simply
out of a desire for some "alone time“
 "When I have my cellphone on me, she is constantly text-ing
me."
 For some reason he feels compelled to answer
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Other Experiments
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In a similar experiment at a high school
 After the experiment a student wrote that answering a phone or
a text when conversing with another human was RUDE!
 These were the same students taking calls just a week ago
I have read other experiments by adults where they try to go
without their phones for a single day
 http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/26/opinion/obeidallah-cell-phone
“Instead of texting or checking my e-mail, I began to actually look
at the people I was sharing the streets with.”
 “It resembled a movie set filled with extras from all walks of
life”
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The Family and Technology in General
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There is an addictive quality to our smartphones, pads, tablets
and laptops that can alter our relationships with our families
 The family dinner (no devices, please) is still an oasis for family
relationships
 Talk about the events of the day, good and bad
 Have philosophical discussions about culture, religion,
politics, and world events
 Put down the phones for an hour
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What We’ll Cover …
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Understanding the relatively rapid growth of technology
Building the Internet and the World Wide Web
How technology and the Internet has changed the world
Using technology and preserving family fundamentals
Exploring the highs and lows of Social Media
Determining which new technology is right for you
10 Things Our Kids/Grandkids Won’t Know About
Wrapping up
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Use Social Media with Care
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Be careful when joining Social Media sites
Anything you post, any opinion, any photo any comment
 Will be around for a very long time
There is fun in sharing and see what other people think
 Make sure you are sharing with friends and not with everyone
in the world
 Unless that’s what you wanted to do in the first place
Younger people are famous for posting things that might make it
difficult to find jobs in the future
 Employers have found it necessary to check out job candidates
on Facebook prior to hiring
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On-line Etiquette
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When commenting on content, be polite
 No insults, no innuendo
 Or you’ll get into an argument with another faceless person
 And we all know, you can’t win an argument on the Internet
http://xkcd.com/386/
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Please Don’t Record Concerts on Your Phone
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This is the pinnacle of rude mobile device behavior
 This proves that we all have turned into “Big Brother”
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From Wikipedia – Now More Accurate than Ever
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Social media - The means by which people create, share, and
exchange information and ideas in virtual communities/networks
 Here are 7 very well known social media sites worth checking
Site
Description
„Face book
Total Social Media
Twitter
Short 140 character Shared texts
You Tube
Video sharing, lots of fun things to watch
DropBox
File sharing, share photos, music, with friends and family
fourSquare
Instagram
Check in to businesses, see where friends have been
Online photo-sharing, social networking, enables users share pictures, on
social networking services, such as Facebook or Twitter.
Blogger
A place where you can have your own opinion.
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How Big is Big?
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„Just how popular are these sites?
„Face book
Description
1.06 billion monthly active users, 680 million mobile users, more than
50 million pages and 10 million apps
Twitter
500 million total users, 200 million active users
You Tube
1 billion users, 4 billion views per day
DropBox
Over 100 million users, 1 billion files uploaded daily
fourSquare
33 million users, 1.3 million businesses
Instagram
100 million users, 4 billion photos
Blogger
Each site is unique and has followers
Site
http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/resource-how-many-people-use-the-top-social-media/
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Facebook
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http://www.facebook.com
The website's membership was initially limited founders to
Harvard students
 Was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area
 Now allows any users who declare themselves to be at least
13 years old to become registered users of the site
All parts of a person’s life can be shared on Facebook
 It’s a great way to stay in touch with family members that are
geographically disconnected
 But please monitor usage for people 16 and under
 Have them share password with you and check out what
goes on and when it goes on (example: 4 AM)
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Twitter
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http://www.twitter.com
Lets users send and read text-based messages of up to 140
characters, known as "tweets“
 One of the ten most visited websites on the Internet,
Tweets are publicly visible by default, but senders can restrict
message delivery to just their followers
 Lets you share things in your life with others
 Lets you in on other people’s lives
 Just about all celebrities have twitter accounts
 Mine is @andypedisich
 It’s a great way to find where someone is at a public
gathering
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YouTube
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http://www.youtube.com
Users can upload, view and share videos
Videos include movie and TV clips, music videos
 Also amateur content such as video blogging, short original
videos, and educational videos
 Includes film and TV content from the “early days”, in original
black and white
 Unregistered users can watch videos, while registered users
can upload an unlimited number of videos
 Whether anyone will watch them is up for grabs
 Sometimes YouTube videos go “viral” and are watched by
millions and millions of viewers
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DropBox
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http://www.dropbox.com
Dropbox lets users create a special folder on each of their
computers
 Dropbox then synchronizes so that it appears to be the same
folder (with the same contents) regardless of which computer is
used to view it
 Files placed in this folder also are accessible through a
website and mobile phone applications
Dropbox uses a “freemium” business model
 Users are offered a free account with a set storage size
 Paid subscriptions get you larger capacity
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FourSquare
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http://www.foursquare.com
A location-based social networking website for mobile devices,
such as Smartphones
Allows registered users to post their location at a venue
 This is called a "check-in“
 Connect with friends
 Points are awarded at check-in
As of April 2012, there have been more than 2 billion check-ins
with Foursquare
 Users are encouraged to be hyper-local and hyper-specific
 One can check into a certain floor/area of a building, or
indicate a specific activity while at a venue.
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Instagram
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http://www.instagram.com
 An online photo-sharing and social networking service
A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape
 This is similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images
 In contrast to 6:9 aspect ratio used by mobile device cameras
Many celebrities have profiles on Instagram
 Instagram is a backstage pass into the lives of musicians,
actors, photographers and more
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Blogger
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http://www.blogger.com/home?pli=1
Reading and responding to comments can be one of the most
rewarding aspects of blogging
Not only do they help you connect with your readers, they can
also inspire later blog entries
 If you use gmail or google+ you’re almost there
 Start a blog
 Topic: Whatever you’d like it to be
Write a weekly post, email the links to your family
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What We’ll Cover …
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Understanding the relatively rapid growth of technology
Building the Internet and the World Wide Web
How technology and the Internet has changed the world
Using technology and preserving family fundamentals
Exploring the highs and lows of Social Media
Determining which new technology is right for you
10 Things Our Kids/Grandkids Won’t Know About
Wrapping up
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Some Tips for Getting the Most Fun From Technology
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Do not “inherit” a hand-me down device from a friend or relative
that is more than a year old
 This sounds like a good idea at the time, but is problematic
If you want to have a really positive experience with a PC or mobile
device, it should be a recent model
 Inheriting a device means getting technology that is already
several years old
 It might be slower, which will be less fun
 It might have less cameras capabilities
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Your Device Requires Personalized for Best Enjoyment
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If you get a free device less than two years old from a friend or
relative it should be reinstalled back to the manufacturer settings
 It should be clean
 No one else’s stuff should be on it
One very important key element in enjoying technology is the
personalization of the device
 You shouldn’t have to log in with someone else’s password
 You should set it up with your own email and browser
 Your favorite settings and bookmarks to your favorite places
on the Internet
 Your shortcuts to programs, pictures, music, and movies
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Your Choices for your Next Device
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We’ll dig into this in the next set of slides
Here are the options:
 Laptop PC or Desktop PC
 Tablet – a few choices in sizes
 Smartphone
 Dumb Phone
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From the Inquirer – Last Saturday April 27th
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It’s official
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More smartphones are
being made than dumb
phones
Dumb phone doesn’t do
anything except make
phone calls
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And maybe email
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But certainly no Angry Birds
Dumb phones are not
going to let you embrace
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Do You Need a PC?
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PC Sales are declining because smartphones and tablets have
amazing capabilities
Do you need to use Microsoft Office or Apple’s iWorks to create
document, spreadsheets and presentations?
 Then you are probably the type of person that should have a
Personal Computer
We have to talk a little technology – about operating systems
 Your choices of OS start to narrow to desktop computers with
the Apple operating system or the Windows OS
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Desktop Systems with Apple/MAC OS vs Windows OS
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This discussion of which is better has been going on for decades
 Generally users feel that Apple creates a more, intuitive device
than Windows
 Less configuration decisions are required
 The technology is easier to use
If you’re currently using a Windows PC that is running Windows
XP or Windows Vista, you’re due for an upgrade
 You should be exploring Apple devices
 They can be a bit pricier
 It will be a totally new experience for you
 You will definitely be in better shape to embrace technology
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Explore Newer Versions of Windows
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Windows systems have more technological feel that can be very
daunting because of terminology and user interface
If you’re currently using a Windows PC that is running Windows
XP or Windows Vista and you don’t want to switch to Apple
 You’re still due for an upgrade
 Windows 8 is the newest version
 We’ve got it in the house
 My significant other moved from a desktop XP system to one
running Window 8 and she likes it – personalized it!
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Desktop with Capability for the Future
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Desktop systems are sold with
 4 to 8 GigaBytes (GB) of memory
 Hard drives with 250 GB to 1 TB of space
 People who buy larger systems tend to be collecting and
editing pictures and video
If you’re the type of person who uses their desktop just to read
emails and surf the web, go for 4 GB of RAM and a hard drive of
250 GB
 You’ll might find it hard to find a desktop with a drive that small
 It seems just as inexpensive to get one with a 500 GB drive
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Maybe I Want a Laptop or Just a Mobile Device
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The choice between and Laptop and a mobile device like a pad or
smartphone is under heavy discussion by technologists
 Part of the argument goes back to how you use your devices
 If you create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations,
 And you definitely don’t want a desktop system
 A laptop is probably in your future
You have a choice between 3 types
 Windows – many manufacturers to choose from
 Android – a few manufacturers to choose from
 Apple – one stop shopping
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Android is the Most Recent Offering
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Google has a very inexpensive “thin” laptop that still can create
spreadsheets, documents and presentations
Google has produced the ChromeBook – built to work with tools
from the Google “cloud” with minimal memory and disk
 2 GB of RAM and a 16 GB solid state drive
Google tools are not as strong as Apple and Windows
 But they might be all you need
You create your technological masterpieces using Google+ Apps
 Store files in Google Drive Cloud storage
 An interesting concept for some users
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Smartphones and Pads
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If you have decided that your thing is just email and connecting
with friends, surfing and social media your choices are
 Smartphones – pretty wide range of brands and capabilities
 Pads – of many sizes and models
 Some people have both a smartphone and a pad
 These users are trending not to have a desktop or laptop
 But some still do
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Hold Me, Feel Me, Touch Me
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Pads and smartphones are the most widely personalized of all
technologies
 You must test-drive these devices in the store
 Go back as many times as you need to
Your choices are going to be
 Windows – many a manufacturers to choose from
 Android –tons of manufacturers to choose from
 Apple – one stop shopping
All have thousands of applications you can download
 Many are free or at least free to try
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Pad and Smartphone Applications
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iPhone and Windows phones offer only “certified” applications
that have been vetted by Apple and Microsoft respectively
 Android mobile devices are more open to developers who don’t
have to hurdle the standards of Apple and Microsoft
 Android developers and users have to cope with constantly
changing Android operating system and hardware standards
If you’re the kind of person that wants to see which application is
draining a battery life, then Android is for you
 If you don’t care and you just want to
plug it in, get an iPhone
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What We’ll Cover …
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Understanding the relatively rapid growth of technology
Building the Internet and the World Wide Web
How technology and the Internet has changed the world
Using technology and preserving family fundamentals
Exploring the highs and lows of Social Media
Determining which new technology is right for you
10 Things Our Kids/Grandkids Won’t Know About
Wrapping up
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10 Things Our Kids/Grandkids Won’t Know About
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There are items in our society that are disappearing
 This site tracks them
 http://thingsmykidswontknow.tumblr.com/
 Here are my top 10
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10 Things Our Kids/Grandkids Won’t Know About
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1. Having less than 40 TV channels
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2. Manually scoring a bowling game
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3. Standing in line at the bank
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4. Not having your entire life on-line
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5. Floppy Disks
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6. Cell phones that only made phone calls
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7. Getting lost
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8. One Hour Photo developing
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9. Quickly Boarding an Airplane
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10. Candy Cigarettes
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Understanding the relatively rapid growth of technology
Building the Internet and the World Wide Web
How technology and the Internet has changed the world
Using technology and preserving family fundamentals
Exploring the highs and lows of Social Media
Determining which new technology is right for you
10 Things Our Kids/Grandkids Won’t Know About
Wrapping up
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7 Tips to Get the Most Out of Technology
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Put your shopping list on a whiteboard, then just take a picture of
it with your phone before you leave the house
Have a wireless network installed in your house and use it with
your phone to reduce the cost of a data plan
You probably didn’t like hand-me-down clothing, don’t take
technology just because it’s free
Explore buying refurbished equipment, especially tablet
technology
Try a different browser, like Firefox or Chrome – they synchronize
your bookmarks from one device to another
Back up your mobile devices, pads, laptops, desktops – plenty of
on-line backup options out there – no excuses
If something goes wrong, smile and give it another try!
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Your Turn!
How to contact me:
Andy Pedisich
Andyp@technotics.com
Http://www.andypedisich.com
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