Diffusion of Innovation - Blog Post 6

 Diffusion of Innovations

What does it take for someone to always decide they want the new and best things? Is it a new camera on the IPhone 13, or a better processor on a MacBook Pro? Maybe it is something so minuscule as your best friend or neighbor has it. Keeping up with the Jones's is something that everyone does without even thinking about it. So how do these ideas spread so quickly throughout the world? 

Think of the first television for example, it was not perfect and had a lot of kinks to work out, but it still became a phenomenon, and everyone had to have one. However, not everyone is going to be an early adopter (13.5%) and some people still do not own televisions no matter how common they are. 

The idea of a television spread so quickly and easily because people were finally able to see the things they wanted to. Of course, there were radios to get news, sports, and entertainment but, there is something different about seeing something with your two eyes. Watching a sporting event used to mean going to a ballpark and watching Babe Ruth hit his 700th home run. Now, all it means is sitting on your couch with some chicken wings waiting for the Huston Astros cheat their way to another World Series ring. 

The early majority (34%) and late majority (34%) are the highest percentages of people because they need to make sure that this is safe for them and something that they would even want in the first place. At this point in time, I do not see a reason for people to not have a television because the positives are extensive.

In The Age of AI- Blog Post 10

 In the Age of AI

The movie "In the Age of AI" is horrifying, it really opened by eyes to what privacy means and how little of it I actually have. I always make a joke about how my phone is listening to me and how my FBI agent is going to arrest me one day, but those might not be jokes and I just did not know. 

I want to analyze this movie from the end. Towards the end of the movie Alastair Mctaggart explained a conversation he had with a friend who worked at Google about privacy. His friend told him "You would be horrified if you knew how much we knew about you." This line really scares me because how much do they know. Do they have a file with my name on it with every website I have ever been to, every item I have purchased, every text I have ever sent? What else could Google know about me? As a 20-year-old, I have spent more than half of my life using the internet and Google so what could be so interesting about me?

One thing that Google might be able to use with my information is figure out how to persuade me to do or buy certain things. Google has admitted to using their platform to change people's views on voting, so why does this matter? Google has also figured out that they are able to persuade people without them even knowing it. This matters for my life because I have shopped at the same places my entire life and I am now realizing that I do not even get ads for stores that I do not go to.  Google has been able to keep me at the same stores my entire life simply because they are the only things I search for and it does not give me any other options. Does this happen for other things? Does Google pick what I do, where I go, and what I buy? 

All of these conversations are terrifying and the more I think about them, the less I want to use technology. However, technology is so important to everyday life, it would be impossible to function without it. All in all, most websites I visit are stealing my information, and I just have to be okay with it. 

Blog Post 7 - Someone Else's EOTO

 History of Television

From Wendell Epps, I have learned many things. How to be a better sportswriter, how to conduct a better interview, and now the history and impact of the television. The television was created in 1927 by a man named Philo Taylor Farnsworth who was only 21 at the time the television was created. 

The first television broadcast would happen only a year later in 1928 from the first mechanical television station W3XK. In 1939, the first sports game aired between the Princeton Tigers and the Colombia Lions. Then in 1941, NBC aired the first commercial which lasted 10 seconds and gave NBC $7.00 in revenue. Later on that same year, the first major news story had been aired about the Pearl Harbor bombing. 

After WWII, CBS and RCA had a rivalry against who could make the best color television and these color sets became available in 1966. By the late 1990's, 98% of all Americans had a television set and watched for about 7 hours a day. 

Other historic moments in television include Neil Armstrongs first steps on the moon in 1969 with millions of Americans watching. The creation of ESPN in 1979 which is still my favorite television channel. The first live telecast of an open-heart surgery in 1983 and due to such high ratings, I believe this gave many channels ideas of doctor shows such as Grey's Anatomy. 

The impact that the television had on everyone’s lives was huge. It led the path for services like Netflix and Hulu. It also gave Americans an escape from the real world and helped people get news from something other than a black and white piece of paper. Lastly, thank goodness I can watch football every week.

Ted Talk Post - Blog Post 5

 

False Flag - Blog Post 9

 False Flag

 

https://www.history.co.uk/article/the-truth-about-false-flags-from-nazi-germany-to-the-vietnam-war