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RAPID ADOPTION. "Not only has Instagram become an important social media site and a central part of the popular culture, but the speed with which it has achieved this is also particularly notable." https://lnkd.in/dffrpRZ View in LinkedIn

MEDIA-RICH. "Many children’s bedrooms are media-rich environments—a growing proportion of children have computers in bedroom with online access. Highly motivated to create a separate autonomous space where children can experiment and develop their personality, youngsters seek to evade parental control." https://lnkd.in/d8-nHvR View in LinkedIn

AGENT OF CHANGE. "Instagram attracted over 100 million users in under two years from its launch, underlining how quickly this social media platform attracted users." https://lnkd.in/dffrpRZ View in LinkedIn

CHANGED COMMUNICATION. "Syntax aside, social media has also prompted a more subtle revolution in the way we communicate. We share more personal information, but also communicate with larger audiences. Our communication styles consequently become more informal and more open, and this seeps into other areas of life and culture." https://lnkd.in/dBD8zjV View in LinkedIn

DIFFUSION OF WORDS. "Because of social media, words are moving around the world within weeks and months, whereas before, it could take a few years." https://lnkd.in/dKdj57e View in LinkedIn

FINAL PRODUCT? "Considering that Homo Sapiens is a very, very recent invention in biological evolution, we as humans are naive if we believe we are the end product of evolution. I’m sure we are not. So there's certainly something to think about. It’s likely that we’ll help create the next major evolutionary step." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

IN PERSPECTIVE. "In his Cosmic Calendar, with each month representing slightly over one billion years, Sagan dated the major events during the first 11 months of the cosmic year. Basically, humans are just the new kids in the block, and only evolved late at night on the last day of this Cosmic Calendar." https://lnkd.in/dTveM5M View in LinkedIn

JOINED AT THE HIP. "Technological Evolution is Cultural Evolution. However, technology’s desires are not dictates. Perhaps what we fear most about technology is ourselves. For better or worse, technology’s evolution and our own are inseparable." https://lnkd.in/dZh-rjw View in LinkedIn

ENDLESS RECONFIGURATION. “Slowly, at a pace measured in decades, we are shifting from technologies that produced fixed physical outputs to technologies whose main character is that they can be combined and configured endlessly for fresh purposes. Technology, once a means of production, is becoming a chemistry.” (Brian Arthur). https://lnkd.in/dhVUUSY View in LinkedIn

TECHNOLOGY EVOLUTION. "Brian Arthur of the Santa Fe Institute believes that Technology evolves over time: “machines started as disparate pieces of seemingly unconnected technologies, but like humans, they also have an origin and a process of evolution.” He is arguably the first person to tackle the question of the origin and evolution of machines." https://lnkd.in/dhVUUSY View in LinkedIn