Matt Edgar

After finally reading Matt Edgar's post on the technology of the day, and Moore's Law, something that I found interesting was actually the speed at which technology is going. Even in the first sentence, it says that "the rate of change is accelerating exponentially," which is justly followed by the question- how do we know- is there any way of measuring. Yes, the rate of change has gone up high-as he says
It took radio 40 years to reach a market penetration of 50 million
We only had 10 years to adapt to the television
While the iPod took only 5 years
Youtube less than six months,
Google+ reaching this in nearly half the time,
yet what he rightly says is that we "witness" this we still have the same cognitive capacities, and number of eyeballs. However fast technology and change goes up, we will still have room to improve ourselves, and come up with better technology. The world we see today, despite all the talk of how powerful and advanced technology is, there is still room fro improvement.
Jonathan