Laurence John Krieg 

Inspiration and Provocation

I believe the 21st century is the century for customization, where we'll see the end of mass manufacturing. We have the technology to do that today. The bigger changes are behavior and process changes, not technology. It will be the ecosystem enabled by technology that will drive change. Technology by itself is overrated. It enables less than 1% of what needs to happen before your vision becomes realized.

• Ping Fu, Communications of the ACM, November 2009

Guatemala 928

• August, 2009, I returned to Guatemala for the first time since 1961. I served with a mission team bringing health education and dental care to isolated and impoverished communities, but took an extra week there as vacation. The team Web site (which I put together) is here.

What's (relatively) new?

• My blog in transit-oriented development and community
• My Facebook page, with photos from several recent adventures.
• Correspondence with C. S. Lewis 1955-1958, including high-def scans of Lewis's original letters, so you can see his handwriting and even the effects of using a pen dipped in a pot of ink.

What am I interested in?

• Check here to find out...

What about the rest of the family?

• Find out here...

What do I Do?

I'm a retired faculty member of Washtenaw Community College (WCC), Ann Arbor, Michigan. Retirement activities include:

• Short-term mission work, such as teaching linguistics to speakers of minority languages in Mexico and others who want to help preserve them;
• Encouraging sustainable, transit-oriented development in Washtenaw County, Michigan;
• Part-time teaching of things like XML and introductory computer skills at WCC;
• Traveling, especially by rail!

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