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Has the Internet Made People Smarter?
I posted this question to the co-workers the other week and the consensus is still undetermined. Here is how it all began... We were eating gourmet hot-dogs at a place near the office that has some really good hot sauce. We discussed how bad it would be to get that sauce in your eyes. It would be torturous. This got us on the topic of torture and I inquired about bamboo torture techniques. Basically, you bond someone to the ground underneath new bamboo and apparently, because it grows so quick, it will grow through the unfortunate person. This inevitably led to the question, "How fast does bamboo grow?". Back when I was in school finding this answer would have meant a trip to the library, or an encyclopedia or some other source of information that is not the internet. That could have easily taken an afternoon to find the answer. Well, I went online and had the answer in less than a minute. Which leads me to the topic of this blog. So, what is the answer? It is a given that questions like the one above are easy to find answers to, meaning that the internet is full of useful, easily accessible information. However, what about all the dis-information? Are the ideas and thoughts of all internet capable humans adding to the Global Knowledge of humanity or is it doing the opposite? I personally think all the world's information at anyone's fingertips has made humanity smarter, but also more dangerous. Oh, and bamboo grows 2 inches an hour! The Racing Chef
We at Chepri have taken on a rather exciting web development and design project! Although we are always excited about each project that we are involved in, every now and again one pops up that is not only exciting in the same way, but has more 'curb appeal' due to it's potential to be viewed in a widespread fashion right out of the box. We've recently been working on the site for The Racing Chef, which is a new television program debuting March 1st on the Speed Channel. The project is almost done, and will soon be viewable at http://theracingchef.com!Looking Back On 2009...
Fighting the swell of "economic" insanity hopefully capped a year full of successes versus that of failures for most of us. We as business owners didn't really know how things would unfold, especially for our little business here in Columbus, Ohio. But we knew that going in that there would be the normal challenges, however how deep they may become only time would tell. They obviously presented themselves to us as mere distractions, the whistling newscaster, with his predictions of economic uncertainity and H1-N1 pandemics. Yes, last year we said fairwell to many 80's icons like Ed McMahon and Farrah Fawcett. Of course, the loss of Michael Jackson still is an echo, reverberated by the old telly. We say good-bye to a decade of terrorism and war, to disease and famine alike, of economic distasters and those of natural forces. We stand on the precipice of a new year, new decade, and wonder how it all effected us. Our business. Our family.
To be continued...