Welcome to Tomorrow : a beginner's guide to technology

For newcomers to STEM fields, where to begin their education remains a challenge with little guidance. With any luck, the inquisitive person would have a mentor able to guide them down the path, for anyone else - good luck. Whether you are a student born into a technology threaded world, or have been an active professional for years, the technology vocabulary and acronyms can present a seemingly impossible educational goal. There is now a starting point in the newly released book - Welcome to Tomorrow: a beginner's guide to technology. Addressing technology's positive and negative impacts head on and with humor punctuated by references to popular culture. STEM students and pleasure readers alike, will gain an accessible entry point into their own journey of digital citizenship.You, the user, command real dollar value through your attention and interactions with content across the web, this is the basis of how Facebook and Google became modern-day Goliaths. Whether you're viewing videos, articles or memes, the truth is that advertising dollars follow you and speak loudest on the web. Understanding that is the first step on the road to digital citizenship. Embodying digital citizenship, is an ongoing effort to understand our rapidly interlocking into the worlds.After reading the book, readers can expect a comfortable foundation with high-tech topics such as Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. Reinforcing these topics are a series of 50 free flash cards using imagery and bite-sized insights into the topics at hand. True to form, the book's content is easily understood by beginners, establishing knowledge beginning with Information Technology basics and ranging up to tech acronyms such as application program interfaces (API) and software development kits (SDK). By grasping control of our decisions, we'll develop a strong sense of technology's role in elevating not only our convenience, but also our humanity. By learning about and leveraging technology in our everyday lives, we make our voices heard, the next step is learning to harness our declarations to begin building a better tomorrow.