10 Feb
Posted by US city journalist as Technology
What i mean is. If i buy the “state of the art” today why is it only briefly. Why does technology evolve in a progressive pattern. Could it be that it is drawn out over time on purpose by big businesses? I know that part of it is because of the cost of the product and making it easily affordable by the average consumer. Is that all there is to it?
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February 10th, 2010 at 9:39 am
1I think you’re taking a kind of overly-focused view when you say that technology evolves in a progressive pattern. A hundred or a thousand years ago technology definitely did NOT progress in the same way it’s doing now in the laptop market.
Even now we still have occasional huge leaps of technology (wheel, internet), but we also have an environment that encourages continual progress. And success – computer developers are improving this stuff as fast as they can cash the paychecks .
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February 10th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
2The actual “technology” improves over time because new technique are discovered and developed. No one knew how to make a computer that had the power of the one that sits on your desk in 30 years. Then they figured out how to make one, but it cost millions of dollars and was the size of a car. You may find this graph of the timing of the introduction and and adoption of “new” technology in the past useful in understanding how things work because it deals with more familiar things.http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2008…
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