Who would have known that
throughout the sixties, seventies or even eighties generation, technology would
be of such major importance in everyday life? Technology is one of the
principal driving forces of the future; it is transforming our lives and shaping
our future at rates unprecedented in history. We first started out with the
telegraph, then the radio, the newspaper, magazines, television and now
internet. With such appliances, the media influence has not only grown
exponentially, but its to the point where teens and adults cannot live without
their tools.
Straubhaar,
LaRose and Davenport describe many types of web content genres such as blogs,
online games, search engines, portals, social media and entertainment that we
view on a daily basis. Frances Cairncoss shares with us in “Trendspotters Guide
to New Communications” an array of trends in technology that can be found in
Eric Bucys book titled “Living in The Information Age.”
1. The Death
of Distance
2. The Fate of Location
3. The Irrelevance of Size
4. Improved Connections
5. More Customized Content
6. A Deluge of Information
7. Increased Value of Brand
8. Increased Value in Niches
9. Communities
of Practice
10. Near Frictionless Markets
11. Increased Mobility
12. More Global Reach, More Local Provision
13. The Loose Knit Corporation
14. More Minnows, More Giants
15.
Manufacturers as Service Providers
16. The Inversion of Home and Office
17. The Proliferation of Ideas
18. A New Trust
19. People as the Ultimate Scarce Resource
20. The Shift From Government Policing to Self-policing
21. Loss of Privacy
22.
Redistribution of Wages
23. Less Need For Immigration and Emigration
24. A Market
for Citizens
25. Rebirth of Cities
26. The Rise
of English
27.
Communities of Culture
28. Improved Writing and Reading Skills
29. Rebalance
of Political Power
30. Global Peace
In future blogs, I will
demonstrate how two major genres, entertainment and social media, play a role
with Carncross’ trends. Stay tuned to see which three trends I chose to
elaborate on out of the thirty!
Cairncross, Frances (2005). Living
In The Information Age. By Erik P. Bucy. (2nd ed.). Print.
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