American Cannon at the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park | Jeb Brooks
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Snow on a parking deck in Greensboro. Looking at the Wachovia Tower. | Jeb Brooks
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Memory isn’t as important as it once was. In the past, the best way to access knowledge was to have it. And it was difficult to acquire. I recall working on school projects with volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica spread across the kitchen table when I was a kid. Anyone remember combing through card catalogues?
Now, all you need is a laptop phone and the world is yours. I can’t tell you the number of times my friends and I have been arguing about something and just turned to our blackberries for the answer.
Today, instead of consuming knowledge in huge chunks anticipating what we might want later, we get it in bits and bytes as we need it.
There was one more point I wanted to make about this but I can’t remember what it was…
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Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the sit-in movement. Along with the Brown v. Board of Education decision, and the Montgomery bus boycott, the sit-ins helped spur the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The sit-ins began on February 1, 1960 at the Woolworth’s lunch-counter in Greensboro, NC when four NC A&T State University students sat down in defiance of Jim Crow and asked for a cup of coffee.
This important moment in our nation’s history is being marked by the grand opening of the International Civil Rights Center & Museum. The world-class museum is located in the original building where the movement began. It’s a jewel in the crown that is Downtown Greensboro.
Here’s a video about the museum:
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The sign on the building next to Governor's Court. It advertises a long-gone auto supply store and Fram filters. | Jeb Brooks
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For a long time now, I’ve had a computer I use for school (it’s a laptop) and one for work (it’s a desktop). It’s been a hassle to email files back-and-forth. Recently, I received a suggestion: Dropbox. It’s been a great solution to the problem so far.
I like it because it’s not bulky. In fact, there’s no interface at all: Just a folder on your desktop. Dropbox enables you to access files on any computer with the software installed. Of course, you can also get to your files on the web. And, there’s even a public folder that creates links to share files with anyone, anywhere.
Oh, and up to 2GB are Free!
I definitely suggest you give it a try.
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You can’t lead where you won’t go and you can’t teach what you don’t know. This was something my father used to say all of the time. I can’t find its source. I’d like to believe that my Dad was the first to say it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he heard it from someone first. Any suggestions on sources would be most appreciated.
That being said, I think this philosophy can take a person a long way. There’s a lot of truth in this basic tenet. How can you ask someone to do something you haven’t done yourself? How can you tell something you aren’t aware of?
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Since I’m posting this from 35,000 feet on a flight to Cincinnati, somebody did something pretty amazing with those 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes! Do you think any of the 26 letters played a role? Regardless, I’m impressed (but not surprised) that I’m squeezed into an uncomfortable airplane seat using the Internet.
The point is that technology is advancing at such a rapid pace that it’s almost impossible to fully fathom. I’d add some statistics to this post, but they’ll be out-of-date by the time I clicked “publish.” I always looked at a flight as my only real chance to “get away.” I literally couldn’t be plugged in. But because of some creative folks with a great idea, that’s no longer the case! It seems like there’s almost nowhere we can’t connect.
Unfasten your seatbelts, put your traytables down, and get ready for the future. It’s all about connectivity. There’s no telling what’s coming our way…
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A snowy road in Virginia | Jeb Brooks
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I’m not really a “vacation” kind of guy. There’s just too much to be done. But, we shall see…
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