Archive for May 2007
It never fails. Whenever I attend an insurance technology conference, I can be sure someone will ask, “So what have you seen that’s new or impressive?”
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When I look back on the long and, really, rather mundane history of technology in the insurance industry, one glaring fact leaps out at me—when it comes to upgrading technology or trying something new in the tech realm, we are far from enterprising or adventurous.
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Depending on your point of view, “global warming” may either be the most significant technological issue of our century–or the most egregious technological hoax of the millennium.
Probably no one was looking more forward to hearing William Shatner’s address at this year’s ACORD LOMA Systems Forum than yours truly, but in the end, I had to sympathize with one showgoer who lamented, “Another childhood icon bites the dust.”
Microsoft really, really wants you to adopt Windows Vista, despite the fact that they’ll stop paying child support in five years (that is, they will end support for the product at that point). Will that work for you?
NASA reports in its newsletter that, far from being a display of nature’s fireworks alone, lightning actually produces gases—and some of those gases may have an effect on (gulp!) global warming!
ComputerWorld recently reported on the theft of yet another laptop computer that contains vital, sensitive, private information on innocent people. It seems there’s no end to these incidents, but the way I see it, this is nothing that the Mission Impossible team couldn’t cure.