Let me rephrase that question. Will the new administration put technology at the top of its agenda? President Obama campaigned on education reform for 21 months. He talked about how he wants to provide a better education for our kids and make American children more competitive again. But will he invest in technologies such as E-ink and push devices such as Kindle in our schools?

That remains to be seen. I personally believe that technology is not a distraction but a facilitator. Devices such as Kindle go beyond what books can offer. They can make learning interactive and provide better ways for educators to communicate with the students. I am not sure where we will be in 4 years, when it comes to this new administrations education policies, but I know we will be better off than we are today if the promises are kept.

What are you thoughts? Are we better off with Obama when it comes to education reform? Please share your thoughts.

A reader asked me a question about using Kindles once on the air. So I thought I’d share my two cents and hear what you guys have experienced with your airlines. When I got my Kindle when it came out about a year ago, I decided to take it with me to a conference in San Francisco. I was told at the time that Kindle should be checked out separately and the device should be tuned off right before the take off. I was also told that I can use it as long as the wireless is off. Now I have heard a few people who have had difficulty using Kindle on air-lines, and the policy may have changed by now. But I am curious to know if anyone has had any difficulty with using Kindle on a commercial plane. Please share your thoughts here.

The U.S. government supporting companies such as Amazon with their digital transformation efforts? It’s never going to happen, right? Well, I think it’s worth considering. We all talk about the Green movement to save the planet and take cars out of the roads and replacing them with Hybrid vehicles. I hear all about bank and insurance companies claiming that their paperless approach saves the planet. That is all fine and dandy. What I don’t understand is the credit that Amazon and other E-ink device makers don’t get for their efforts to convert people from using physical paper books to digital books.

I know, we are not there yet. Kindle or other e-book readers are not advanced yet, but with the improvements that I have seen in the iPod, it’s not out of the realm of possibility to have an eBook reader in a year or two that pretty much does everything you can do with a book. I am talking about a glorified Adobe Acrobat like ebook device, with color and all the bells and whistles. Maybe instead of spending on things that don’t matter, the government could give tax breaks to people who bought this more expensive eBook reader. I know a lot of people talk about the experience of reading paper books and how rich it is, but at the end of the day, a whole lot of people (especially the younger generation) would be more open to getting a cool gadget like Kindle to read their books, do their homework, and so on than going with paper books. Maybe it’s just me being too optimistic about a little device that is cool but not essential. But at the end of the day, if insurance companies are taking credit for going paperless, maybe Amazon and its rival companies should get proper credit as well.