“Chance favors the connected mind.” ― Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation The Internet has been part of my life since the summer of 1999. For good or ill, I depend on the Net for many things – the ability to work from home, find information without having to […]
Living with Cerebral Palsy: How Technology Changed My Life – Part One
“We are all connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.” – Stephen Hawking I love technology; as someone who struggles with the effects of cerebral palsy on a daily basis, I depend on it. Like most of my peers who were born in the latter half of the 20th Century, my way […]
Rolling With The Punches
Life in 21st Century America is, for most people, a never-ending series of challenges. Aside from the day-to-day struggle to make ends meet in a post-industrial economy with its wild boom-and-bust cycles, a fractious and often toxic political environment, and the social, moral and economic fallout of a never-ending War on Terror, most of us […]