Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Readings:
“As We May Think,” by Vannevar Bush from The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.
“Whither Moore’s Law” in Christensen (Seeing What’s Next)
Christensen Morse’s Law could renamed Bill Gates’ “640K ought to be enough for anybody” law. Though I found this to be an interesting case study that disputes the general notion of endless need to [...]
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
Christensen, Seeing What’s Next - Part 1 - Using Theory to Analyze
“Ecologizing Mobile Media,” by Howard Rheingold. 2004.
“Determining Uses and Gratifications for the Internet,” from Decision Sciences, Vol 35 No 2, March 2004.
The readings by Rheingold and Christensen provided me with frameworks to identify key factors present in the evolution of technology in the marketplace, [...]
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Readings:
Winston, Media Technology and Society - “Introduction” and “Chapter 1: The Telegraph”
Fidler, Mediamorphasis - “Technologies of the Third Mediamorphosis”
The Economist - “How the Internet killed the phone business,” 17 September 2005
Patterns is the theme that emerged from this week’s readings. The central premise of Winston’s book is to look at the [...]