It was inevitable as it was obvious. An evening walk with my grandfather. He had spent the past fifty years working with technologies and, given as it was 2074, the technology changes he had witnessed could only be described as dramatic. Walking from his office I caught a glimpse of framed emails he had kept as artifacts from his earliest days in IT; a rare sighting by any measure. As a new hire fresh from college, he had joined HPE, as it was called in those years. Following a series of mergers followed by a number of spin-offs, it was hard for me to visualize what it must have been like back then. “What you think of today as technology didn’t exist back then but circumstances changed and ambitions exploded,” he said. “I recall clearly when individuals wrestled total control of tech away from state-supported institutions as the idea governments could foster any level of cooperation needed to break through barriers.” Quickly revisiting the past and stories that I’ve heard before,
If you have followed Margo and myself on LinkedIn or even on Facebook you would know all about our recent travels. And yes, also of travels yet to take place. The NonStop community is keeping us busy of late and it’s proving to be a welcome distraction to what we are in the middle of, as you might say. Moving; none of the glamor and all about the pain. It is not a unique situation we face, but one that many others have apparently succumbed to; a lingering COVID ailment that we are managing, but with consequences. Living in mountainous Colorado for all of its beauty is no longer part of any long-term plans. Indeed, our vision for the future is to live somewhere closer to sea level where increased atmospheric pressure will work its magic. With this in mind, what has been the center of our frequent travels between our former home in Windsor and a newly acquired condo accommodation is that it’s not just about the pain of boxing and unboxing your possessions – it is that while we have a vis