Virtual Alter Ego

( Accidental discoveries - Magazines - DAWN.COM ) A recent maxwell commercial appeals to customers about the many ways used coffee grounds can be used for common household fixes and a beauty product including degreaser, pan scrubber, natural wood stains, hair volumizer facewash, etc.  Further investigation shows that the coffee by-product can also be used as a pest repellent, body scrubber, candles, deodorizer (Oden, n.d.).  It makes us wonder how something that is meant to be thrown away can be turned into something useful.  Some curious minds must have experimented with the by-product and discovered its new usages.  The same concept was probably true for soap and its many deviations, including dish detergent, shampoo, body wash, laundry detergent, etc.  Many manufactures benefit from the creation of soap.   The alternative use and benefits were probably heavily researched or discovered by other means such as serendipity, error, or exaptation. ...

    Your company has spent the last twelve months developing software that you believe in revolutionizing how people use social media.  As the CEO of the company, you were proud of the progress that your team has made.   The week before the anticipated release date, your engineers tell you that the server architecture that supports the software had crashed.   Scrambling to find a solution, you asked your engineer about the possibility of moving and utilizing the cloud architecture.  Regrettably, your engineers informed you that they are unfamiliar with the security of the cloud and the risk that entails further investigation.  Either rebuilding the server infrastructure or securely adopting the cloud will take weeks.   You began to panic but had no choice but to inform your stakeholders of the temporary delay of the release until a later date.  Imagine instead that everything went smoothly with the release of the software, bu...

     Group Decision (www.assignmentpoint.com) There are many group decision techniques; each has its benefits and is to be used under a set of circumstances to yield the best result.   The Delphi technique is often used for developing a forecast of future events and technology trends, lifestyles, legislation, and regulations (Steward et al., 2007).  The problems addressed often have little or no data and no mathematical algorithms to forecast the future accurately.  And it is even more challenging to predict their impacts.   This technique requires a group of experts with similar interests to provide independent forecasts.  A level of confidence accompanies these forecasts.  Choosing the right group of experts plays a critical role in this technique.   The Delphi technique requires a facilitator who can elicit the individual members' questions and feedback (Salkind, 2007).   The top answers are selected, summarized, and sent back to...

  Horizon Report (https://library.educause.edu) The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has left businesses and education institutions stumbling to adjust to the way they operate.  Many had shifted to work from home or remote learning in order to maintain their business operations, something they had not prepared for.   Since then, we have seen other businesses and institutions follow suit with the successful implementation of remote operations architecture.  We can see that these adjustments are reflected in the 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon report.  As a security engineer, the social trend that interested me the most was the “Information Security Workforce Shortage.”  According to the Horizon Report, the demands for skilled security professionals far exceed the supply.   The demand is expected to grow 31% from 2019 to 2029 (Educause, 2021).  Many higher education institutions had begun new education programs in this area.  The University of We...

              Imagine if you have the power to chose to be anyone that you want to be.   Would you prefer to be the president? Or maybe a movie star, singer, dancer, warrior, hero, or even a bird.   Sound familiar?   In a way, these small things are the manifestation of our alter ego.   Most of us are living an alternate reality without even realizing it.     My name is Tony H., and I am a current student at the Colorado Technical University.   As part of the Futuring and Innovation course (CS875), we were asked to create this blog to discuss something we are interested in. Image ( https://www.fox.com/alter-ego/ )               The world premiere of Fox’s Alter Ego ( https://www.fox.com/alter-ego ) on September 22, 2021, brings us something that the world has never seen before, the live performance of singers showcased a...