Dan’s Surfing Snippets

Despite a recession and high unemployment in most of the country, new technology will be one of the most important ways for us to climb our way into profitability.

Dayton, Ohio has thrived in the past as a center for innovation and invention. Many things we take for granted in our lives were born out of the minds of Daytonians like the airplane, electric starter, artificial heart, bar code scanner, cash register (manual and electric), cellophane tape, chrome plating, double glass windows, ethyl gasoline, filter cigarette, heart-lung machine, gas mask, high-octane aviation gasoline, ice cream cone, ice cube tray, instant blood-glucose testing, laser weapons, microfiche, mood ring, ring-pull can opener, self-starter, space food, step ladder, storage battery, time pill, yo-yo and thousands more. For a more detailed list see: http://www.cityofdayton.org/departments/pa/Pages/inventionlist.aspx

Being at the forefront of new ideas was what helped Dayton to thrive in the past and it will be what is needed to help us thrive again.

I recently asked Brad Proctor, CEO of the new Dayton RFID Convergence Center, to speak to our Metro Dayton Chapter of BNI (Business Network International) and was fully excited about what he had to say.

We are all accustomed to bar codes and items being scanned at the grocery cash register. With this new technology you will be able to leave all the items in the shopping cart and they will all be scanned at once!

This technology has other many other applications, like the ability to track each manufactured item from production, thru shipping, thru receiving, thru selling and inventory control. The industries that can use this technology for increased efficiency and productivity are endless, from blood banking to egg farms.

Brad and VP Matt Kussman are looking to attract other businesses in the RDIF industry to assist each other in furthering this technology. The future is wide open as to how far this project can go.

Learn more about this technology by visiting the Dayton RFID Convergence Center’s Web site — www.daytonrcc.com.

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There comes a time when the average man and woman have had enough and take a stand for human dignity, for human rights, especially when they have been oppressed.

This is exacerbated when rulers and ruling parties take their people for granted and insult their intelligence by making false claims and acting like despots.

This country, the United States of America, was born from the average people having enough of tyrannical rule and taking a stand and fighting for freedom.

With that high moral example other countries have followed this lead through the centuries to establish democracy, rule by and for the people.

Now, through the advent of modern technology, the world is watching and witnessing the birth pangs of the cry for freedom in Iran. A cry mixed with the blood of its own people who had the courage to peacefully march in protest to a blatantly flawed election process only to be beaten and gunned down in cold blood.

Neda, a young woman, was one of these victims who did her part to peacefully march only to be shot to death on a street in Tehran. Unfortunately, this victim is only one of many. She has become a martyr, a symbol of this peaceful stand for freedom.

Several thousands of miles away we can only watch and physically do nothing. But we can lend our moral support to the people of Iran who are yearning for the freedom we take for granted.

With such support around the world we can make a difference. The momentum has begun and we need to do what we can to keep this momentum for freedom alive.