Law & Literacy

Our society's dooming innovation.  Through Roger's Diffusion of Innovations, we can see that cigarettes fit his model perfectly.  In the mid-1800s, cigarettes were created.  After the pioneers set this product into society, the most early adopters were Civil War soldiers.  They were used as something they could relax with after the war.  The tipping point would be somewhere between 1955 and 1960.  This was an incredibly fascinating era of our country indeed.  Everyone and their mother had a cigarette in their hand.  This was obviously before anyone knew the long-term effects of smoking (similar to the Juul epidemic now), and they became something that people would do anytime and anywhere.  The late adopters would be the younger generation that had some knowledge of their cancerous effects.  Quickly the product were saturated and brought down to a moderate level, with anti-smoking ad campaigns and people not being allowed to smoke them in restaurants and various other public pla

Apple's iPod was a revolutionary invention.  It mastered the market of MP3 players.  There was really no such thing as a good portable and universal portable music player.  There was a certain hard drive that Steve Jobs realized was missing.  As soon as him and his team found it, they got right to work.  Believe it or not, the iPod received terrible reviews upon its release.  People thought that it was vastly overpriced.  However, as soon as Apple made iTunes compatible with Microsoft, sales skyrocketed.  A lot of Microsoft users reportedly switched to Apple when they introduced the feature of running Windows on Mac computers.  Customers would buy a Mac computer to run Windows, but most of them would admit to ceasing doing this after a week or so. Apple did create a breakthrough device, there is no doubting that.  However, Apple did start something else that started with the iPod.  The started a cult of sorts; a stigma that made people feel like they needed to have their

We live in a world rapidly being consumed by technology.  Whether you think this is good or bad, the people of the world are changing along with it.  There are new apps and widgets that are released on a day to day basis that complete simple tasks that we feel we do not need to do manually anymore.  Take Google Translate as an example.  Translating languages at your fingertips is an asset that would be thought of as fictional and far out only a number of years ago. I was doing a bit of research on the original iPod last week, and I realized how the devices release was a significant turning point in our culture.  Apple is one of the main reasons why our society is the way it is today.  Phone cameras are another culprit in todays society.  The act of taking photos and videos of every significant moment in your life destroys those moments for you.  We are so focused on the simulacrum our iPhones are creating that in the end we never even really experienced that moment.  All you have lef