Tech Today

In its march onward, technology is always giving to and taking from fathers.

On the one hand, Etendi is targeting divorced dads, among others, with their web-based suite (Etendi Bridge) of communication widgets to keep in touch with kids. (Admittedly, this is sometimes easier from a distance than face-to-face.) On the other hand, there is news from British researchers that one in 25 kids doesn't belong to the dad who thinks it's his, which is supposed to be good news since some thought the number was one in 10.

Joined together, the question does arise as to whether it might be possible for the biological fathers who are responsible for the five percent of kids who don't belong to their "dads" to use some secret communications technology to communicate and support their sons and daughters, without causing them too many problems at the same time. "Engineers, start your engines ..."