BarryBobPosthole
02-13-2014, 07:45 PM
Old Wild Bill McGowan was the founder of MCI and had failed at a couple of businesses when he bought a St Louis to Chicago microwave system. I went to work forthem a short time later and it was one of the luckiest breaks I've ever fell into. My employee number was in the 700s.
Anyway, Bill coined the term Information Age and talked about how the availability of data would transform us. He was saying this in the 70s.
It made me think of him while I was watchong the nightly news. It occurred to me that every day I know about significant weather everywhere in the world. I used to not know this. How far we've come!
There's other stuff too. You get the idea. I think there'll be a pushback at some point. I know I've turned my filters further up. I may even start writing letters. I'm serious. We can't handle this much truth. He was right!
BKB
Anyway, Bill coined the term Information Age and talked about how the availability of data would transform us. He was saying this in the 70s.
It made me think of him while I was watchong the nightly news. It occurred to me that every day I know about significant weather everywhere in the world. I used to not know this. How far we've come!
There's other stuff too. You get the idea. I think there'll be a pushback at some point. I know I've turned my filters further up. I may even start writing letters. I'm serious. We can't handle this much truth. He was right!
BKB