Salvation Army

  • Lost art of typing

    The BBC has a piece on Japan Love Affair with the Fax Machine. Older population has gotten used to that technology (which allows for hand-writing). For years, I have used email except for  Thank-you notes in writing. I can reasonably predict that even typing (as we know it) will be a lost art (speech recognition will…

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  • Time to change

    Change bears a different connotation to different people. In the 60’s, change threatened the status quo (Hell No, we won’t go). It’s inevitable that we need to adapt (from jukebox to boombox, from paper-back book to e-book).  A few years from now, we would rather be dead than getting caught carrying  a hard-back book (today’s…

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  • The giving

    This program has been made possible by Viewers like you, and the following foundations….. We all heard that line on PBS or NPR. Now we will see it on Fortune magazine that Giving is back in an organized way (like Barn Raising in an Amish community, or Cognitive Surplus giving at Wikipedia). This time. wealthy…

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