Category Archives: Technology

Five people I’d like to meet

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Kevin A. Barnes

This week BizTimes.com ran an article about the “10 People who are Changing Milwaukee” and it started me thinking about the various people I’d like to meet. Before creating my list, I set a few basic ground rules: Unlike the BizTimes … Read the rest of this entry →

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Tagged — Web 2.0 for Phishers?

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Kevin A. Barnes

I received an email this evening from an old work colleague telling me she had posted photos for me on a social networking site called Tagged1. The email struck me as just a touch strange, but couldn’t place my finger … Read the rest of this entry →

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Last of the Original Rocketmen

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Kevin A. Barnes

Earlier this week I learned from the NASA website that Konrad Dannenberg died on Monday at the age of 96. Dannenberg was a key member of Wernher von Braun’s original engineering team that developed the hardware and processes which enabled … Read the rest of this entry →

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Happy Birthday, Mac!

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Kevin A. Barnes

It was 25 years ago today (January 24, 1984) that Apple unveiled the first Macintosh personal computer. On that day a quarter century ago, Steve Jobs stood in front of a crowd of early Apple faithful and literally let the Mac out … Read the rest of this entry →

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Sir Arthur C. Clarke — The Prototype Futurist

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Kevin A. Barnes

Early on Wednesday morning (March 19, 2008), I was writing an article tentatively entitled “What is a Futurist?” when I heard on the radio of the death of Arthur C. Clarke. My first thought after hearing the news was that … Read the rest of this entry →

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