My Digital Map
Image courtesy of Shutterstock My History with Technology My relationship with technology is one that goes back to using landline telephones , toy walkie talkies , and calculators as a child. In fact for my 10th birthday, my aunt gave me my first calculator upon hearing from my cousin that I had wanted one; I was fascinated by a gadget that could compute ANY math problem using addition , subtraction , multiplication and division . By 8th grade, I was forming secret messages by sequencing numbers upside down and by freshman year of college, I was calculating square roots, sins, cosines, etc. How could one small device do so much! I was prepared to be blown away by the Dos version of Word, later by Windows, and eventually by the Internet. Technology was fun, easy to use, and very efficient. I couldn't imagine a future that didn't include more sophisticated forms of technology; furthermore, I couldn't imagine anything but benefit coming from this. Fast forward thirty year...