Welcome to The Known World

 This is not a blog that generates a lot of public comments.  Scroll down and you will see only a few.  The comments come as private emails directly to me.  They remark on some theme or incident.  The a new spin to my view of events.  Most of all, they tell me a story, a story of a life in technology.

Of course, I want to do everything I can to encourage them.

I received one note this week from a reader commenting on some of the earlier essays.  In particular, he know one of the characters in the essay, a big baudy man named Bohannon.  Bo was a lot like many of my characters.  He was a veteran of WWII.  He stumbled into technology.  He was a character a mile wide and had a heart twice as big.  He loved the technology community.  He loved to work with others.  He loved to think that he was somehow changing the way that business was done, if not changing the world at large.  

Bo was of the hardware generation, the first leaders of the field.   He was followed by the software generation.  Since then we have seen the internet generation and now we are in the midst of the social computing generation.  There are stories in all of them and those are the stories that I need to tell.  

The most recent comments from a reader told of a family involved in technology.  A father who ran a reagional sales office.  A brother who did some work while he was studying in college.  In their age, computing had certain family feel, as the number of workers simply was not that big.  We're now at the point where the number of workers is quite large but that number is broken into smaller units that can hold themselves together in smaller units.  The family does prove to be a basic model for our society with all that is good and bad about it.  If you have some story about the family of technology, I would love to hear it.  Put a comment below.  Send an email to me.  This a bolg about stories.