Bruce Sterling’s ideas at the beginning of Death of Media
really connected to me. I believe media helps people define social interactions
and connects people with knowledge that people have agreed on. Media evolves
with time and even though money can affect which form of media gets endorsed;
popularity and user ability is still most important.
If you look at the development of cinema yes, sound was experimented
with earlier and failed to be implemented. But it’s because these developments weren’t
the best for the direction film wanted to go. With the computers, we don’t just
leave and give up on certain computers because the names aren’t as pretty as
new ones but because newer computers are more updated and work better. Looking
specifically at the iPhone, it’s evident that the iPhone has killed some of its
smart phone competitors by better financing despite not having as many
abilities as other phones. But the phone did lose customers by refusing to
enlarge, not being water proof, and also other technical issues. This didn’t
allow people the iPhone to just take over but the competitors to create a type
of media that doesn’t have the iPhone’s problems as well as making people have
a different choice.
As a communication major, I learned that communication is
constantly changing so of course the way that we choose to communicate has to
change as well. Media does die and maybe other media helps speed along the death but it may just be the fate of each media source.
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