You don't have to search long to find some astounding statistic about how much data is accumulating daily in the world thanks to technology and the growing norm of connectivity between people and networks. You could easily spend your day just reading volumes of information and data that come at you via email, social networks …
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Leap Year Lesson #304: Technology Upgrades Can Bring Positive Change
For a large chunk of the past 48 hours I have been immersed in the fun that comes with upgrading to a new phone - updating contacts, downloading apps, setting up things the way I want them to be, getting rid of junk that comes on the phone that I don't want, organizing the interface …
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Leap Year Lesson #154: Not All Technological Innovation Is Good
Friday night I took my father to buy a new computer. His old one bit the dust a little over a month ago and it was time to start fresh. We went to an electronics store in Lexington, KY and selected one that was a good fit. Then we went to pay for it. That's …
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Leap Year Lesson #145: Social Media Brings the World To You
As pervasive as social media is today, a majority of the people on earth still don't use it. That's hard to imagine for some of us whose work lives and much of personal lives seem to revolve around it, but it's true. Facebook's nearly 1 billion users is a genuinely impressive number, but so is …
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Leap Year Lesson #85: Unplugging Is Difficult
As one who is almost always online - both at work and outside of work - stepping away from technology for any period of time is difficult for me. As I anticipate spending the next several days in a personal retreat at The Abbey of Gethsemani, I'm in a bit of a quandary over what …
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