Something You Should Know about Technology Trends

April 16, 2013

Interview with Daniel Post Senning, author of the book Emily Post's Manners in a Digital World: Living Well Online

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Mike Carruthers:
With cell phones and new technology manners and etiquette seem to be changing some would say declining.

Daniel Post Senning:
Every generation faces the changes that occur in manners and ask itself are manners in decline? And the answer is no, the good news is that there are always new manners that are coming into being also.
 

January 14, 2013

Interview with Rachel Chou, Chief Marketing Officer, Open Road Integrated Media

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Mike Carruthers:
Digital eBooks are becoming increasingly popular, will they 1 day outsell traditional printed books?

Rachel Chou:
I think certain types of books we’re seeing it already; the romances, the thrillers, the mysteries – for those genres’ you’re talking about +50%. The sales versus print have really skyrocketed.
 

June 6, 2012

Interview with Lucy Worsley, author of the book If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home

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Mike Carruthers:
When you cook your next meal you’ll likely use a pan on the stovetop and you’ll take it for granted. But for centuries that was impossible going back to medieval times.

Lucy Worsley:
The absolute basis utensils that medieval people had were their round bottomed iron pots which hung from a hook over the fire. And into it you would put the mainstay of the medieval diet which is a kind of a soup.
 

May 29, 2012

Interview with Ed Keller, author of the book The Face-to-Face Book: Why Real Relationships Rule in a Digital Marketplace

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Mike Carruthers:
With all the talk about Facebook and Twitter you might think that social media has become the primary way by which we communicate – not so.

Ed Keller:
The overwhelming amount of word of mouth that takes place is still in the real world, offline, face-to-face, and while online social media is getting a lot of attention now it is a small fraction of the total volume.