Marv's Smart Future – Take Two

I am a technology guy! I love the excitement of new technology of any kind. In my younger days I believed that all technology was good for mankind as long as humanity properly harnessed it.  I believed that all technology could make our lives easier, enable us to do more in less time, and enable more freedom in our lives.  I began to open my technology aperture in the early 1980’s while working for Rear Admiral Wayne Meyer, the father of the Navy’s Aegis fleet of cruisers and destroyers.  Admiral Meyer burst my bubble one day while I was explaining to him how computer automation would reduce the workload burden on our Aegis sailors.  In his famous, cantankerous way, he told me that I was speaking poppycock.  He then explained to me that automation always makes our lives more complex, busy, and challenged in some unanticipated way! Continue reading →