This week’s Courier Herald column: A few months ago I wrote a column suggesting that it was time to accept electric vehicles as mainstream. Too many, mostly from conservative political circles, associate the advancement in technology with overreaching political agendas. The two concepts can and should be treated separately. Adapting to new technologies and incorporating
Last week’s Courier Herald column: I had a long drive Tuesday, and much of it was punctuated by recurring news updates regarding President Biden’s summit of leaders from the tech and financial industries on Cybersecurity. While the meeting had been highly choreographed to emphasize what private industry is already doing to combat the ever present
This week’s Courier Herald column: This week I managed to catch the 2013 movie “Saving Mr. Banks”, the story of Walt Disney trying to secure the movie rights for Mary Poppins from author P.L. Travers. Both Disney and Travers jet across the Atlantic as the iconic studio head tries to gain the author’s trust, approval,
Social media has certainly changed how we interact with one another. It’s been a blessing for allowing people to connect over long distances–even more so during a pandemic. It’s also been a curse by allowing people across the political to spread disinformation. Social media platforms started to crackdown on accounts that violated their terms of
Rural broadband has been a hot topic over the last few years, and the transition to online instruction due to COVID-19 has shown real gaps in areas that do not have access to high-speed Internet access. The Georgia Senate passed legislation that would allow the state Public Service Commission to regulating how much electric co-ops
Technology has been a tremendous help during this pandemic. It’s allowed families and friends to stay in touch from a distance as we ride this thing out. It’s also allowed schools to continue instruction without much interruption, but not everyone has access to an Internet connection. Yesterday, Governor Brian Kemp’s office announced the deployment of
This is going to be a technical piece, so be warned. COBOL was trending on Twitter this weekend. Neat, but it wasn’t because there’s been a sudden increase in folks wanting to learn how to program in COBOL. Nope, the Governor of New Jersey asked for volunteers from “Cobalt” programmers to help in maintaining (I
Georgia’s is currently committing broadband suppression via a virtual pole tax. Separate bills working their way through the House and Senate are aimed at removing barriers that would reduce the cost to deploy high speed internet services. Supporters of the legislation say it would pave the way to more broadband coverage in rural areas. Opponents
This week’s Courier Herald column: About a month ago I noticed an article being shared by quite a few of my social media contacts. It was published by Popular Mechanics, and was titled “This $1 billion Solar Plant Is An Obsolete, Expensive Flop.” The Crescent Dunes plant on 1,500 acres near Las Vegas was approved
Information Technology is a large field, and Georgia is quickly becoming the home to a range of tech companies from small startups to large Fortune 50 companies (or their IT divisions). It’s a field that has major impact to Georgia’s economy. Financial Technology (or Fintech, for short) has visibility when discussing policy that affects technology
