Scott Dewing
Jefferson Journal ContributorScott Dewing is a technologist, teacher, and writer. He writes the technology focused column "Inside the Box" for the Jefferson Journal. Scott lives on a low-tech farm in the State of Jefferson. He was born in the same year the Internet was invented and three days before men first landed on the moon. Scott says this doesn't make him special--just old.
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You want to have privacy online? Then get offline. Don’t want Google, Facebook, the government, or Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon knowing what websites you’re… -
America invented the Internet.The first iteration of what became “the Internet” that you use everyday, was built in the 1960s. It was called ARPANET and…
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This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.—T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”It’s…
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I'm lost somewhere within the tangle of narrow streets in Venice, Italy. There are signs high up on the walls of the crowded buildings looming…
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I was recently reminded of the old proverb “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” when the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act…
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Dear Santa, I know it’s been awhile since I last wrote. Probably like 40 years or so. Sorry man, I’ve been real busy with growing up and life and stuff.…
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Anyone who has spent a sufficient amount of time on the Internet, especially in the realms of social media, has had something mean and hurtful said…
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Imagine the milk is running low—or, if you live in a home similar to mine, one of your kids drank the last of it and put the empty container back in the…
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For the most part, we go about our daily lives unaware that we are information storage devices. We store all sorts of information in our brains. Some of…
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Once upon a time, about a 1,000 years ago in Internet years, people who wanted to use a computer had to invest some time into learning the fundamentals.…
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All the big tech companies (and at least one U.S. government agency with the acronym NSA) are in a race to be the first to capture computing’s Holy…
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I’ve been writing about technology for just over a decade now. I’ve worked in the field of information technology for twice as long as that now and, most…
