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Technology

The subjects worth understanding before you are asked about them.

Each of these is explained once, in plain language, with the consequences set out separately for a small business, an enterprise and a government agency. No vendor is being sold here.

Network technology

How the parts reach each other and the outside world: wired, wireless, routing, naming and the quality of the experience that results.

Wi-Fi

Why wireless networks disappoint, why more equipment usually makes it worse, and what actually has to be measured to fix it.

3 of 3 audiences · reviewed 22 July 2026

Security technology

Proving who is who, keeping what should be private private, and being able to show afterwards what happened.

Digital identity

Proving who you are online without handing over everything about yourself — and why it is about to stop being theoretical.

3 of 3 audiences · reviewed 22 July 2026