In 1883, an article in THE ELECTRICIAN quoted an employee who was resigning from the Patent Office because “the inventive power of the human mind had reached its limits” and “there would be no further demand for new interventions.” Nailed it. Positively nailed it!
Just five years later, the ballpoint pen was invented, 80 years later the internet, and not quite 150 years later self-driving cars and a pocket-sized phone whose computing power could literally send astronauts to the moon. At the pace of invention and progress, how can we possibly stay ahead of things? Go back to school? Take a class online? Bribe our kids and grandkids with cotton candy (invented in 1888) to teach us what’s new?
You could start by visiting LearnFree, where the possibilities are endless. For more, read the latest post on our Tech Tips webpage!