We are part of the growing movement to re-orient technology so that it is used to create a sustainable human culture and a more human-centric world . . . one reflecting the wonderful diversity of the many strands of human culture. 

The reason this website exists is to act as an aide for all those who want to see the fundamental aspects of human culture enhanced by technology. After all, it is the cumulative contributions of various human cultures, from ancient Egypt’s Imhoptep to the innovative thinkers responsible for the evolution of modern science and technology, which has brought us this far.

The flowering of every discrete form of culture, according to its own internal dynamics, is essential to the positive development of the aggregate human culture. From the strength of the discrete cultures, the apex culture, that is the human culture formed by the reality of all the globe’s diverse and unique cultures interacting, cooperating and even principally disagreeing.

This kind of society requires humanity majority finding our collective voice from many different tongues tell the story of the earth and human innovation and errors. We strive to do this without disguising the blemishes of humanity or ignoring the grandeur of all forms of human achievement.

We will look at these issues from the point of view of romantic love, marriage and family life, the key artistic forms, communication and information technology, commerce, finance, economics, social sciences, humanities and several other critical human cultural perspectives and views

Role of Technology

Technology is an important aspect of culture. The interaction of culture and technology is often misunderstood or ignored. Just as it is true that culture impacts technology, it is equally true that technology impacts culture. The impact is both local and international, influencing global culture just as it affects every individual culture on the planet. How the world communications is altered by technology. Just as presidents and prime ministers can communicate because of satalites and cables, villagers in small remote areas of the world can easily communicate by cell phone as well. At one time, young lovers wrote letters proclaiming their passion. Today very few people write letters at all. Today a text message is sent or perhaps an instant message or tweet. The idea of sending a message through snail mail would never occur to anyone. So even the culture of love has been changed by the availability of technology.

Of course, technology also changes in response to culture. In the last half century people have been constantly on the move. Whether they travel long distances for work or pleasure it is imperative that they are available to transact business or put out the flames of a family emergency. The cell phone is mandatory for modern life. At one time the idea of remaining constantly accessible would have seemed absurd. Today it is a financial and familial necessity.

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To survive in the knowledge / information society of the modern era, one must be sufficiently competent in one area or another of Information Technology (IT) and also understand the all-pervasive impact of human culture on the development and use of IT.

In the modern office you are considered unskilled if you are not proficient in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint. And today's communication requires an understanding of skills such as HTML and CSS, buttressed by software like Dreamweaver, Flash and Captivate.

In the Computing Resources Association's "Culture, Society and Advanced Information Technology" Executive Summary you will find the following:

"The National Information Infrastructure is the major technological development affecting broad segments of the American public at the end of the 20th century. Built upon convergent technological developments in telecommunications and computing and avidly promoted by industrial, government and academic interests, the NII is already changing the way Americans live, work, learn and consume."

leading to

". . . New ways of creating, storing and transmitting information . . . transforming institutions and cultural practices."

Likewise in the "Accounting Forum," Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 84-109, 2002, you will see a article titled "How Culture Affects the use of Information Technology" ( co-authored by Sharon K. Johns, Brigham Young University — School of Accountancy, Murphy Smith Texas A&M University and Carolyn Strand Norman Virginia Commonwealth University — Department of Accounting) the authors document the critical role of culture in Information Technology in areas such as Accounting

"Multinational enterprises (MNEs) must be able to communicate and process data efficiently and effectively...Technological advances have altered the methods by which MNEs conduct both their domestic and international operations. Advances such as e-business, information security, and electronic financial reporting are among the most significant technological changes facing accountants. As accountants confront and resolve these challenges, they will need to consider the effects of culture on implementation and use of technology. The purpose of this study was to examine differences in cultural and organizational environments of MNEs. Based on these cultural differences, we formed and tested hypotheses regarding the utilization of information technology by accountants. The findings indicate that impediments to international data flow are significantly related to culture."

Further, according to Wayne State's Institute for Information Technology and Culture "most IT projects do not live up to their initial expectations, and that the reasons for these shortfalls are cultural," that is the developers of various information technology projects and systems do not understand the cultural context of the role, use and process of creation of the specific IT application.

This is the general subject matter that this website addresses. Namely the quick assimilation of fundamental IT skills, from the beginning of project planning using application such as MS Project to outline the project and MS Visio to design the system, to the development of websites and other Internet oriented applications and the use of leading desktop oriented software such as Adobe Coldfusion or Flash and Microsoft Access or Excel, many of which are widely used in web development and associated tasks.

However, on this site you will find not only instructive tools to help you achieve competency in html, css and off the shelf packages such as those provided by Adobe and Microsoft, you will also be provided with actual examples of how we deploy these resources to portray various aspects of human culture.

To begin, check out our Flash videos on this page, Poker Night and Prince Charming -- The Myth, about a town called Middleville. Each vignettes is about a set of characters that live and/or work in the town. But, Middleville is not your typical hamlet. Be prepared.