This is such a critical posting, as this is no longer just our “New Front Door”, it’s the status quo “place where everything happens”.

And “an Ivy League Liberal Arts Education” will no longer mean very much, in the “Post Privacy Age”, as a good friend puts it, where we are constantly data-mined in ways which so many of us can’t even yet imagine, unless we CAN imagine & know, how and through what means, what is being done to us, is being done, and better yet, how we can do the same.

So those who do know, will rule, and are in fact ruling. Everything.

First, bring us the top information technologies now available, and apply these to whatever Bowdoin presently has & is using.

And then, bring us closer together, so that we can brainstorm & network with all the power that connectivity can bring us, to exercise these essential M.B.A. training business skills.

Make it so that Bowdoin alum network as effectively as Stanford’s graduates do. Or even better.

And then educate us all as to how information technology currently works.

And build a program to educate the entire Bowdoin community, including alum, as to the latest & most useful information technology developments as they happen, or even before.

And since I’m here in Hickory, and have my own war stories to tell about the UNC system & Chapel Hill & Wake Forest, and most recently, WCU, maybe we can swap information there as well.

Warmest regards,
Barry Browning ’73