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Category: Technology

Emerging technology is a reflection of our shared societal values and the technology that our culture develops and implements can help us figure out who we are.

NEW PRESENTATION VIDEO: Technology Reshaping Society… By Disabling Government

October 15, 2018 brandonferdig Law, Government, Politics, Society, Technology

How Do We Address Issues Like Guns and Drugs, When the Government is Losing Its Power to Control Them? This[…]

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Sunday Evening Post, August 5, 2018: “I Was On Canada TV / A Surprise Article in the Star Tribune / Skip and Trudi from the Mississippi”

August 6, 2018 brandonferdig Politics, Society, Technology, Travel

Family, Friends, and Readers: I’ve got bad news and great news. I’m one to get the bad out of the[…]

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3D-Printed Guns, Weakening Government, and Our Need to Step Up (*New Video)

August 2, 2018 brandonferdig Politics, Society, Technology

3D-printed guns are in the headlines, but they represent just one of many technologies challenging the capabilities of the government[…]

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*NEW VIDEO* No Alcohol, No Musical Instruments, No Voting: Montana Mennonites Share Their Life

July 9, 2018 brandonferdig Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Society, Technology

In July 2017, I knocked on the door of a home in the middle-of-nowhere Montana. Just off the freeway snaking[…]

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What Cuba Taught Me About Modern Society – My Story in Today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune

June 3, 2018 brandonferdig Society, Technology, Travel

Out today in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: my story reflecting back on Cuba and what she revealed about the role[…]

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Grandma and Grandson Try Virtual Reality

April 22, 2018 brandonferdig Family & Parenting, Technology

The future looks very different through the eyes of different generations. A grandma trying out virtual realty for the first[…]

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I’m Joining a Social Network That Pays You for Your Posts

April 10, 2018 brandonferdig Society, Technology

I just wrote my introductory post on a social network many of you have probably never heard of: Steemit.com. It isn’t[…]

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TRUMP, the NFL, and the ANGRY PUBLIC *New Video*

September 27, 2017 brandonferdig Society, Technology

On Sunday it was the activity before kickoff that took center stage. In reaction to Trump’s comments about firing protesting[…]

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Pokémon Go and Racial Integration

July 15, 2016 brandonferdig Society, Technology

At 1:00am, a 19-year-old was walking through his neighborhood park, when suddenly, a figure in the darkness came from out[…]

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Pokemon Go Bringing Strangers Together–outside My School

July 12, 2016 brandonferdig Society, Technology

I was leaving work yesterday, and two coworkers were chilling outside on the steps of the nearby church. Both young[…]

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