Month: September 2022

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

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

RATE OF CHANGE. "There is a popular video on YouTube which assesses the rate of change in contemporary society, and illustrates beyond all doubt how this change is growing exponentially. The video particularly notes that the take up of social media has been extremely rapid in comparison to similar technologies." https://lnkd.in/dffrpRZ View in LinkedIn

ON SHOULDERS OF GIANTS. "Much work on technological change agrees that the recombination of new and existing technological capabilities is one of the principal sources of technological novelty." As analyzed by patent code evolution. https://lnkd.in/dp-phxx View in LinkedIn

DISRUPTIVE innovation is less common than incremental innovation, cobbled from pre-existing pieces to achieve greater efficiency. True in nature. True in technology. View in LinkedIn

TECHNOLOGY. "It is vastly easier to theorize about technology than it is to measure it. It is our principal contention that patent technology codes can be used to track and characterize technological change." https://lnkd.in/dp-phxx View in LinkedIn

TECHNOLOGY. "The first notable attempt was made in 1954, by the philosopher Martin Heidegger in his ground breaking essay, The Question Concerning Technology. In it, he describes technology not as something we build, but as something we uncover and enframe. In other words, we are not wholly responsible for man-made wonders, nor are we entirely in control." https://lnkd.in/dZh-rjw View in LinkedIn

FAST ADVANCES. “We put together pieces of metal alloy and fossil fuel so that we hurtle through the sky at close to the speed of sound; we organize tiny signals from the spins of atomic nuclei to make images of the neural circuits inside our brains; we organize biological objects — enzymes — to snip tiny slivers of molecules from DNA and paste them into bacterial cells...Two or three centuries ago we could not have imagined these powers.” (W. Brian Arthur). https://lnkd.in/dBf9m3S View in LinkedIn

DEFINITION. "Technological evolution refers to the changes over time in technology that give humans increased control over their environment." https://lnkd.in/d-EG9jg 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