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Technology of the Future: People are both Fascinated and Apprehensive of the Possibilities

By Dick Weisinger

A recent study by Pew Research looked at people’s hopes and views about the future and the role that technology will play in it.  The results show a conflict in the way that people think.  On the one hand, there…

Smart Government: Driven by Social, Mobile, Cloud and Information

By Dick Weisinger

Social, Mobile, Cloud and Information are transforming all parts of industry and society.  Gartner says that these four technologies will also have a transformative effect on governments worldwide, driving innovation that they’re calling ‘Smart Government’. At a recent conference in…

Security: A New Algorithm Provides ‘Unbreakable’ Encryption

By Dick Weisinger

Encryption algorithms are often based on ‘keys’.  Algorithms to date have been based off of selecting a key from a very large, but still finite, set.  If someone had enough time and computing resources, codes can be eventually hacked.  But…

Technology Spending: Line-of-Businesses Now Spend More on Technology than IT

By Dick Weisinger

Gradually there has been a shift in funding technology projects from IT budgets to line-of-business budgets.  In 2014, $275.2 billion is expected to be spent by businesses to fund technology projects.  That’s nearly 55 percent of all money spent on…

Resource Scarcity: McKinsey Predicts that Technology will Prevail

By Dick Weisinger

Doomsayers are predicting a future world of conflict, high prices and haggling over the world’s limited resources as another 2.5 billion people from the developing world prepare to join the current group of 2 billion middle class people.  Is it…