Web Secret 506: the best of iWebU - Tech Proof

On August 15, 2018, I will be celebrating 10 years of iWebU - that's over 500 weekly posts .

Leading up to that momentous date, I am re-releasing the "best of iWebU", starting in 2008 and moving forward.

These are the posts that stand the test of time and remain as valuable today as they did then.

And so, I revisit Web Secret #309: Tech Proof.

Why? A lot of things are changing very fast, but others - not so much. Identifying what stays the same is important.

Web Secret #309: Tech Proof - May 7, 2014

A few months ago I returned to Vegas.

I was last there 40 years ago.

A lot had changed:

• from seedy to glitzy
• from flashing light bulbs to state of the art projections
• from a Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed, to a flat screen TV.

But a lot hadn't changed at all:

• in the casinos, pretty girls with very little clothing delivered drinks to thirsty gamblers
• the slot machines were still slot machines
• you could still play poker, blackjack and shoot craps
• the Cirque du Soleil show was a circus show
• I went to a comedy show and it was just like any comedy show I had ever attended - a person stood on stage, talked and made me laugh
• the magician escaped from a water flooded tank - just like Houdini did, over 100 years ago.

In it's very essence, the Vegas experience hadn't changed at all.

The Internet, computers and cell phones hadn't touched it. It was "tech proof."

We spend a lot of time focusing on what is rapidly changing in our world. The change has been remarkable.

But equally remarkable is what remains "tech proof."

What will be "tech proof" ten years from now? 50 years from now? 100 years from now?