Matt Edgar Post

In the post by Matt Edgar he raises some interesting points about the pace of change and the way that people are adapting to things faster than ever before. There is one point I would like to pick up on is when he says: 'How can one seriously compare 50 million households hearing radio broadcasts for the first time with 50 million men, women, children and spambots taking a couple of minutes to sign up for free accounts on Google's latest foray into social networking'. I think the message he is really trying to get across is the way that new products now a days are so much more accessible that they are just seen as the norm. Not having an account on Facebook today is almost seen as immoral. This shows the way that the world has developed in a way which means that technology is increasingly integrated into our lives and it is increasingly easier for us to have access to all the latest technology.

What Matt Edgar is saying is that today we live in a very different society to when the radio first came out. In our society, not many new ideas are being had-for example Google+ is just a different type of Facebook or MySpace with a few changes. Therefore it is impossible to compare a radio which had never been seen before with a different type of social network. This means that people are already very familiar with new things coming out and this makes the time that people take to adapt to new products much quicker.