Scott Dewing
Jefferson Journal ContributorScott Dewing is a technologist, teacher, and writer. He writes the technology focused column "Inside the Box" for the Jefferson Journal. Scott lives on a low-tech farm in the State of Jefferson. He was born in the same year the Internet was invented and three days before men first landed on the moon. Scott says this doesn't make him special--just old.
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We’ve become obsessed with tracking everything. Maybe not all of us, but most of us likely track at least one or more of the following: steps per day, body weight, caloric intake, exercise routine, hours worked, sleep.
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The future possibilities for our species significantly changed on Monday, July 16th 1945 at precisely 5:30 a.m. At that moment, the landscape of New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert was engulfed by a flash of beautiful light brighter than a dozen suns.
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American journalism started out weak in 1690 when the first newspaper, Publick Occurrences, was shut down by the British government just 4 days after its first publication.
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Remember the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, commonly referred to as HIPAA?
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The phrase “tragedy of the commons” was coined in 1833 by the British economist William Forster Lloyd. He used the term to describe the negative outcome…
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In 1965, futurist and writer Alvin Toffler coined the term “future shock” to describe the “shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in…
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The sexbots are coming. Well, not literally, not yet anyway—but that’ll happen soon enough with further advances in the fields of robotics and artificial…
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Forged deep in a crucible of earth and brought toward the surface in a river of magma, diamonds are the hardest known naturally occurring substance. Their…
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The attempted assassination of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro last month using a pair of drones armed with explosives made international headlines…
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You want to have privacy online? Then get offline. Don’t want Google, Facebook, the government, or Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon knowing what websites you’re…
