Question 1 – In chapter 26 of Everett Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations, Rogers discusses the concept of re-inventing innovations, arguing that designers have classically frowned upon re-invention because it presents challenges to measuring the implementation of their innovations. Considering the constant rate of turnover on-line, including the very way metrics measurement and analysis persistently evolves, why should today’s innovators embrace re-invention?
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Reading reflections: Innovations and Disruptive Technologies
Thursday, February 12th, 2009Reading Reflections: The telephone, recorded sound, semiconductors, and the interesting paths of invention and diffusion – plus predicting the future in 1945!
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009Yes, that’s a long title, but I have so much to talk about! This week’s readings for my Evolutions and Trends in Digital Media course covered myriad subjects, but I have been able to draw out some common ideas and will assiduously attempt to tie them all together here. We students were asked to take a look at some more of Brian Winston’s book, Media, Technology, and Society, on the subject of the telephone and recorded sound, as well as Clay Christensen’s Seeing What’s Next, regarding the semiconductor, and lastly, Vannevar Bush’s prophetic 1945 treatise “As We May Think“, which rightly predicted the era of the computer. I will somehow connect these works together and bring them all back to the subject of communication in general. Wish me luck!
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