Should this be "Dragon's Tail" or "Dragon's Tale"? Technically, if you follow the analogy and imagery, it should be 'Tail"... in terms of personality, the double-entendre may either mean that this will be an interesting and readable work, thus the "tale"; or, this will be so dull and boring that "Dragon Stale" will be the epitaph of this project. I'm pulling for the "tale" (pun intended)!My tale begins with an undergraduate student interested in technology in the late 1960's who departed academia and entered the professional workforce with hopes of saving the world. The same student, committed to life-long learning, has been chasing the technology dragon for over 30 years now and has noticed that others, with similar academic backgrounds, lost sight of the dragon years ago. The gap between what students learn about technology while in school and what is actually happening with advances in technology after a student leaves the classroom, is the "gap" that I wish to explore. Is that gap measurable, predictable, or significant to the quality of life? Certainly, there are historical models of technologies introduced in the past. Are there relevant comparisons to today's gaps and those of such things as the telegraph/telephone/cellular sequence? Is this just anoter study in the diffusion of technology? We shall see.