The article I handed out to read over the long weekend is from The New York Times' Ideas & Trends section, circa 2005. The author of the article begins the investigation into the role that the "bigs" in technology (radio, film, tv and now the Internet) play in human understanding/communication/evolution (perhaps).
Quoted in the article is a very interesting (at least to me...and so to you as well!!) passage by Kevin Kelly, editor of Wired magazine. Check out his own story from the August 2005 issue of Wired to understand where we were (the human race) at the cusp of the "Internet Revolution" back in 1995. Some nice perspective is provided in how we got to where we are today in this reading. Click on the link below...
-Mr. Hoban
We Are the Web by Kevin Kelly
I wonder how people who thought that television was never going to be used, or important would think now.
ReplyDeleteYea I have to agree this is kind of interesting. A bunch of people thought the internet was not going to work nor appeal to the people. But the revolution started and internet trading companies' stock rapidly grew. Communication through the internet was also enhanced. Then the internet became what it is today.
ReplyDeleteI find it very funny how new technologies are usually shunt during there first few years of creation ,and a year later people cant live without them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with alex about how it's funny they aren't accepted. That's what history shows us happens. Even in more scientific experiments if one guy had an idea that no one was used to people would shut him down just because it was a new idea. Why should forms of communication be different?
ReplyDeleteIt takes time for any new idea to evolve and for people to accept it
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