2008 has been an exciting year for innovation in technology, not a week has gone by without a major breakthrough or scientific discovery. But what do some of these new discoveries, innovations or inventions mean for our future? How will life change for the human race or our civilizations and societies due to these breakthroughs?

It looks like the Russians and the Americans are breaking new records under our seas as they go deeper and discover more and more unique things. While NASA studies other planets, asteroids meteors, suns and moons, we have yet to discover or document over 1/2 of the surface of our planet, which lies under our giant oceans.

Most likely you have a computerized billing and scheduling system in use, whether or not you use Electronic Medical Records (EMR) at the moment. And, with more than just a single computer in use in your practice, it's more than likely that you're on some type of network. When multi-user, multi-task EMR systems are integrated into the practice, the complexities of capabilities and network designs become essential.

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past twenty years you will have noticed the sudden steep changes our world has taken towards the technological. We are ushering into an era where computers are becoming more and more common.

By using a secure proxy, you have the chance to increase both your privacy and your security when you are online. Please do not assume that the Internet is an anonymous place because it isn't. Everything you do online leaves a digital footprint.

Cyber attacks are probably the greatest threat to our current civilization in the information age. We are no doubt a wired nation like most of the industrial first world nations. That means we rely on communication and computers for our society to operate and for our governments and militaries to run. Consider if you will what might occur if all the computers and Internet went down and was out of business for more than a few days; can you say Chaos?

Mass Spectrometry is an analytical technique that identifies the chemical composition of a compound or sample based on the mass-to-charge ratio of charged particles. The design of a mass spectrometer has three essential modules.

This article looks at the differences between CDs and DVDs. Most of the people are familiar with them but do not know the similarities and differences.

Aerial photography maps are clear images, much like photographs, as the term indicates, that offer views of landscapes as well as other things, for the benefit of certain industries. There are various uses of these types of maps but what is unique about them as opposed to other more basic maps is that the view they offer of the territory they are representing is in the form of a picture, and is not drawn by cartographers. This offers several advantages.

This article is for all you Cisco security buffs out there. The "authentication" for Internet Key Exchange (IKE) policy command; is a Cisco IOS "ISAKMP Policy Configuration" mode command; that is used to specify the authentication method used within an Internet Key Exchange (IKE) policy. Below are the proper syntax and an example of the "authentication (IKE) policy" command: