Glasgow Community Experiences Break-Through In Medical Technology

This technology is a more advanced version of Skype.  It's a way for a special doctor to see and diagnose a patient without having to be physically there.  Hospital staff and patients like this new set up.  Patients are able to see the specialist they need for their condition.

"Tele neurology is going across the country for hospitals that have a shortage of a certain specialty. In this case, our shortage is a neurologist," said Bud Wethington, T.J. Samson CEO.

"It is secure on our side and actually on the other side as well. There is no problem with us losing your personal information to anyone. Starting Monday morning, we'll have this service fully operational. Where today, we're having to transfer some patients out of here, quite possibly to Nashville, Bowling Green, Louisville or Lexington. we will not have to do that going forward because we have the technology here to take care of our patients," said Bud Wethington, T.J. Samson CEO.

I like this method.  I am surprised they have not developed it sooner.  This is one way of outsourcing among hospitals.  What may some of your concerns be about this set up? 

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Connecting To India

 

Many companies and leaders are beginning to realize the untapped potential and future of connecting to the rest of the world through technology. In a recent news article it is explained how Mark Zuckerberg realizes that his company is suited well to meeting this need and helping in connecting a developing country like India with technology. Technology is only becoming more affordable so the future of developing nations that have huge populations that are disconnected beginning to use technology will soon be realized. Connecting India with technology would help their economy but, could also boost the world economy.There are many challenges to these developing nations face when implementing the use of technology on a wide scale that tech companies can help with. Companies like Facebook and Ericsson are already at work on meeting these needs to help.

Some questions I have are:

1. What problems could developing countries face now or in the future in their pursuit of becoming technology based?

2. What could the impact of these countries becoming connected with technology have on the future?

Feel free to add any other comments or concerns.

US Air Force Develops “Fly-Bot”

The United State Air Force has been working on the development of a drone that looks like an insect.  Their original goal was to create a bird-like drone.  In hopes that it would blend in with nature and go undetected.   With technology advances the Air Force was able to produce something much smaller than a bird-like drone.  An insect size drone was made.  As shown in the picture below, it is smaller than your finger tip.  

This drone is still controlled by a trained pilot at a remote terminal.  These drones could release small amounts of gas.  Another option would be that these drones could be packed with high power explosives.  These drones could do damage if there were a swarm of them.

I think this is a good idea.  I certainly would not think something so small would oppose much of a threat.  Do you think this is worth investing in?  How effective do you think these new drones would be?

Screenless Display Technology

Screenless display technology is on the list of the next big technologies that anticipated to be here soon by many. There are many different forms that this technology can take place and many companies that already have workable prototypes as can be seen by clicking here. There are three main forms that this technology will shape in. They are visual image, retinal display, and synaptic interface.

Visual Image - Examples of these are holographic images, HUD's (Heads Up Displays), and virtual reality glasses.

Retinal Display - With retinal display no real image is produced. A beam of light will hit our retina and the projected image will seem as if it is floating in front of us. Examples of these are certain glasses that will use light beams and bionic contact lenses. 

Synaptic Interface - These are visual images that are given to the brain directly. They will most likely be the farthest off of the three from being usable technologies anytime soon.

The visual image of this technology seems to be close with the famous Tupac appearance at the 2011 Cochella festival and can be explained by watching this video.



Below is are survey questions to get a feel for which technologies might be most useful and how people feel about their anticipate arrival. Please answer the questions and feel free to ask questions and leave comments also.                       

"Shellshock" Bug to make an Impact

Bash (Bourne-Again Shell) is a piece of software that is built into over 70 percent of machines such as servers, computers, routers, and some mobile phones. Rumor has it that Bash contained a software bug (Shellshock) that could be used to take over millions of machines around the world. Shellshock is the offspring of the Heartbleed bug that was discovered last spring in many software’s. The key difference between the two crucial bugs is that, Heartbleed stole passwords from servers, while Shellshock is much more of a threat than that. It can take over an entire machine. According to New York times, click here Heartbleed "went unnoticed for two years and affected an estimate 500,000 machines, but shellshock was not discovered for 22 years." Many think that it’s surprising that a bug could go unnoticed for two decades, but not to programmers. Researchers say it would be more difficult for this bug to reach your personal laptop rather than one that is connected to the server due to the fact that people would have to join a public network that hackers knew you were connected to in order for them to work. In order for these bugs to be fixed, Mr. Bellovin, a computer science professor, states that in order for this bug issue to be solved, the open source community has to be less consumed with the new features rather than quality. Quality is more important than the new features and those skills need to be developed or it’s going to fall behind the quality race and technology will start to decline drastically.

RFID Technology

I read a recent article from September 16th on a European clothing manufacturer and retailer that is using RFID technology to improve it's business processes, (specifically it's inventory management) and improving its inventory turnover ratio and gross profit. I found this article interesting because, I have been hearing more and more about different uses of RFID technology and they seem to be growing in popularity, not only in the the U.S. but, in other countries as this article shows as well. For those of us who haven't heard RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification and is essentially a system used for wireless tracking using radio waves. You can learn more by clicking here. Some of the general suggested uses of this technology online are the tracking of goods, persons, or animals, toll collection and wireless payment, machine readable travel documents, tracking logistics, and use with sports events.
There seems to be numerous uses and when thinking inventively and it seems popular with business planning for the future so my questions to you are these:

1. What innovative or creative use of RFID technology can you come up with?

2. What direction can you see this being used in business settings in the future?

3. Do you think it will be a sustainable technology of the future and why? If not how long do you think a trend toward using this technology will last?

Feel free to bring up other questions or point on the topic that I may have missed or haven't thought of also. I'm open to an engaging conversation on this topic.
Thanks!