I made an invaluable discovery over the summer that’s a personal example of the computational capacities: I can gain more professional development information in a half hour from Twitter and/or my Ning group than I do from attending an all-day educational conference. When I think about the changes that have occured in the mere 10 years I’ve been teaching, it’s mind boggling to think about the next 20 years.

What I didn’t like is in their “market audience of 50 million” part, I really don’t like how they took adoption of hardware and then jumped it to software/web sites. I mean, once we had 50 million radios it was a lot easier to get 50 million people to watch shows. Especially once there were 100 million radios.

Once there were a bunch of computers out there (many of whom had modems) getting them on-line was relatively quick. Once AOL and CompuServe (etc.) flipped a switch all their users were magically on the Internet (even if they didn’t want to be). In this case many of the users did nothing, they were just “on the internet” all of a sudden.

Every phone and computer and handheld is a computer these days, once someone turns on a computer it costs users nothing to sign up for a service like facebook. Plus, electronics are cheap (even in this economy) compared to when TVs came out. Getting these devices is much more affordable and the population is growing so of course adaption is faster.

I’m rambling….

The other videos are great too!