The idea of our broad culture becoming converged into one melting plot intrigues me. It is obvious that with this convergence our lives are becoming more convenient but at what cost? In the lecture there was a slide that stated “convergent technologies are more than the sum of their parts”. I like this notion as it rings true in so many various elements of our lives. Look at the mobile phne for example. Once apon a time mobiles where used simply for ringing people. They where large and cumbersome but now we cant basily do everything under the sun with our smart devices. God knows how we used to find our way around with out GPS technologies in our back pocket, also how would you be able to tell your hot date your running ten minutes late to the date.
The idea that all this content, that was only once accessible by going out on your own time to each place where you could find it is now merging into more accessible platforms. This means that we have now old and new media content. There is a divide between the older generations who are not using the iphone to read the head lines and those that who are. We also talked about these companys like the newspaper printers who are finding it hard to sell papers now, what if they went broke and could not print papers. How would our oldies get their news? This is why the future of technology is very unclear, better go and catch the latest news lines on reddit.com
I think you mean "melting pot"! But it's a good analogy, everything mixed together in a network cauldron.And I guess convergence has some good points, your less likely to think you're being held up!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that there is a definite gap between those connected and those who aren't, but it's not necessarilly a generational thing, look at Ted! I think we have it easier though, we learned tech by osmosis, the older generations have to make a conc effort to keep up!