TECH UPGRADES ARE EASY
Our technology improvements gave us bigger benefits with far less effort than the other projects. Until a few years ago, retrofitting audio or video equipment meant hours of wiring work, figuring out how to snake cables from one device to another. Today, wireless systems like Bluetooth eliminate most of that hassle. We still had to hardwire some power supplies, but that was pretty simple. The small size of devices is another big plus. Our video projector, for example, provides a large, sharp picture but takes up about as much space as an old transistor radio. We did keep one piece of old technology, though: the main control panel. It no longer controls anything—but it looked so cool that we just couldn’t bring ourselves to tear it out.