October 15, 2007 by admin.

I know that this is not exactly an original idea and that it has been analyzed and written about extensively, but it occurred to me while I was trying to sleep last night just how incredible technology really is these days. Certainly I would have never come to China without the internet (I had posted my resume’ on some MBA Network website in early 2000 where it was found by the Chinese company that brought me to China to teach MBA classes in February 2000), but it goes beyond that. I certainly wouldn’t have been able to stay in China so long, so far away from my family - those occasional pictures that I get of any of my 4 nephews can really brighten up my day - and the emails 3 or 4 times a week from my mom help to close the distance from half a world away. And just this past Saturday (early Sunday a.m. here in Beijing) I was talking with both my mother and father at the same time using a certain company’s “computer to landline” phone service for only US$.01 per minute (I won’t mention the company by name since they charge me to advertise my business, they can pay me to advertise theirs!) and giving them almost live updates on the Oklahoma State - Nebraska football score since it wasn’t televised back home. So here I was sitting in Beijing, China giving my parents in Oklahoma updates on the score of an Oklahoma school playing football in Nebraska. These types of things have become so commonplace that we don’t really think much about how nearly miraculous it is until the computer breaks down or the internet goes down; then we realize how much we take it for granted.

Without current technology, I certainly wouldn’t have been able to start Beijing Discovery Tours and offer Beijing tours, hotel rooms and holiday packages to people all over the world through the internet. Guests can safely and securely pay either the 30% deposit or pay in full through the website with current technology and then come to Beijing knowing that they don’t have to worry; we will have everything ready for them so that all they have to do is relax and have a good time while they are here. Technology also helps us coordinate travel plans for our customers to travel to other cities such as Xi’an with the world-famous Terracotta Warriors and Chongqing where they can enjoy the famously spicy food as well as Yangtze River cruises.

Last and certainly least, the internet and current technology allow me to sit here on the computer in Beijing, China, looking out on a beautiful sunny fall day in October and write these words that can now be ignored by the entire world, from Azerbaijan to Zambia and all points in between.

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