Who's not Keen on Tech These Days?
Let's face it - the pervasiveness, productivity, and promise of technology in the early 21st century has heralded a new age. Even as I begin this blog, well into a worldwide recession that's slowed economic activity, people continue to innovate - in fact, the recession is actually one driver of this continued innovation. As capital frees up at the inevitable end of this cycle, the pace of change will accelerate, and innovation will be redirected from primarily wringing efficiency from existing processes, to new and as-yet unimagined applications.
So why am I starting this blog? The mundane answer is that I had to start up a blog in order to access the account to comment on someone else's blog... but when forced to choose a title, I decided on one that reflects my current focuses - both as a technologist for a major investment back, and an adjunct professor teaching Digitial Communications at a major Ivy League university.
So many of my students have done such stellar work and continually surprise me with technologies and sites of which I was unaware, that I started to feel guilty for letting my relative birds-eye view of this space go to waste. This blog reflects a resolution towards what I feel my unique skills are - which is simplifying complex concepts, which is part of what led to teaching part-time. As a math and computer science major undergrad, and Finance MBA, I've had my exposure to no shortage of complex-speaking blowhards - but the real geniuses, I felt, were the ones who could explain things to 5-year-olds and have them remember the concepts years later.
More to come (hopefully) -
Keenan
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