CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Phonograph, Supercomputer, Darpa
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Invention: a completely new technology, very rare, ex. Innovation: new ways to make a previous technology useful, ex. Laptop: diffusion of technologies, projection, new uses, the work of designers, marketers, or innovative users adapting this technology into their lives. *** the electric light bulb = invention / led lights = innovation *** As a musical instrument" the phonograph spurred the popular & recorded music industry. Who is going to want to use this? : the social aspects hard to predict dictate what happens with any technology. Eventual use: public relation, hardware becomes less profitable than software (the phonograph is less profitable. Investors corporations than the music that is played on it: policy and infrastructure (things that are provided by the government) Nye: the best design does not always win. Prediction: people keep trying to predict tech blogs, tech predictors, news shows on predictions. Barlow: believes that the internet makes face to face contact more important.
