I don’t usually watch commercials on television; but during the recent Winter Olympics, I was intrigued by a Microsoft commercial. Perhaps you saw it as well. In this particular 60 second commercial, the spokesperson for Microsoft highlighted a number of different high-tech applications available to us today. The screen was filled with computer graphics, laser lights, complex mathematical formulas, and technology that looked like scenes right out of a science fiction movie. Apparently, all of these advanced “other worldly” applications are available to us today through Microsoft and are right at our fingertips. The last line in the commercial was, “Now that you have this technology, what will you do with it”?

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