Tips For Embracing Technology…From Ask Lewis
Dancing Elephants Press — A.I. versus H.I.
I remember once having a conversation with my mother, Dorothy Harrison, around 1980. She would have been about 63 years old then. I asked her what the state of technology was at the time of her mother’s birth (my grandmother) back in the 1880s.
My mom replied, “These things had not yet been invented: The airplane, the ballpoint pen, the electric light bulb, and the long-playing record.”
Then I asked about the state of technology at the time of her birth in 1917. She replied, “There were no radios, no computers as we know them today, and no television.”
I was born in 1951. Rock-n-roll did not exist as a distinct music form, the electric guitar had only come into being about a decade earlier, and even in the 1960s, my early teen years, cassette tapes had not been invented yet, and neither had personal computers or cable television.
I am a businessman. My point in all this is that the merging of the creative spirit, due to advances in technology and the movement of information; through interactive mass media and demands in the marketplace; has created numerous technological advances and changed the world more in the last 130 years than in the previous 2000 years.
Now, the saying, “life imitates art” is no longer just a cute cliché.
- How many young people have become astronauts because they watched Star Trek on a 13-inch black and white television?
- How many philosophers, and business visionaries began their radical way of thinking by watching The Twilight Zone?
- How many primatologists had their passions ignited by the Planet of the Apes movies?
- How many A.I. specialists were motivated by the Matrix Trilogy?
Everything about the world we live in is being affected and influenced by technology, and now, more than ever, by A.I.
Right now, I am sitting in a hut on the edge of the Philippine Jungle. The locals still climb their coconut trees and go out fishing in the morning with hand-carved spears. The primary mode of transportation is water buffalo or what they call a “pad.” I don’t mean an iPad. Here, a pad is a human-powered pedicab tricycle. And yet, almost everyone has a cell phone and knows where to find an internet hotspot.
If you are a business person and have not yet begun the journey of integrating technology into your business, you are likely going to be left in the dust.
Maybe you think you can work your way around it? That’s what many different companies in many different industries thought when George Washington Carver, Thomas Edison, George Goodyear, and many other visionary inventors of the day introduced innovation in existing technologies, as well as new inventions.
I am not a communication technology genius. I am quite the opposite. I am usually the last guy on the block to embrace new technologies. I have learned from my mistakes and I’m now learning to use A.I. wherever I can.
I am still shocked when I meet peers who own cell phones but only use them to make phone calls; who never joined Facebook and tell me, “I already have enough friends”; who think a pad is composed of 8 x 11 yellow sheets of lined paper; and who think a social network is a business networking monthly breakfast.
I am going to take you by the hand, as I have been taken by the hand, inch by inch and step by step, pixel by pixel, and I will lead you from the darkness into the light of what new technologies can do to make your business and your life more effective, productive and financially successful. Once you understand how this works, I will give you the resources necessary to get to the next level.
I am not speaking here about the details of technology. Rather, it is an explanation of my journey in understanding the basics of Search Engine Optimization and social networking, and how they influence and are influenced by digital technology and globalization. This is an exploration of the big picture.
It is one thing to do your business accounting online and another thing altogether to understand how to use information as a tool for power, influence, and business success. It is one thing to have a Facebook account, but another thing entirely to understand the power that social networking analysis has to change your life.
In this book, you will learn simple ways to integrate the transformative power of communication and other key technologies into your business and your life. This will not require much effort, only a new way of thinking. I promise you that this will be a motivating, inspiring, informative, and fun process.
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I am Lewis Harrison, a successful entrepreneur, and advisor to philanthropists. I am also the award-winning author of over twenty books on business, leadership, personal growth, and strategic thinking. For over a decade I was the producer and host of the show “What’s Up” on NPR-affiliated WIOX FM in New York.
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