Innovation

As I am arriving to the end of “Everything Bad is Good For You”, I have concluded that the era that we are living in can be described in one word: innovative. Our generation is pushing each other to develop more and more things to impress our minds, because we are always searching for more.

This weekend I watched Steve Jobs movie, and I realized how unbelievable the ipod, iphone, computers are I have taken these tools for granted because I have been familiar with them when I was eight years old. They have been a part of my daily life, and I have never analyzed the power that they actually have on my life.

If I did not have my music I would go crazy. The first ipod that was every created only had the capacity of storing 100 songs, now those 100 songs form only a playlist on my ipod. My computer, Internet, phone, are tools that I use regularly that have facilitated my tasks and entertained me. As I am writing this blog post, I can’t stop to think how people came up with these things. Yes, they are easy to use, but the geniuses that developed these tools are admirable because they took something that seemed unreal, and made it a reality.

Thank you to all those who have contributed to the innovation of our tools, who have made our lives easier and more entertaining. Who have worried about the small details, as Steve Jobs would say, because those are the things that mostly matter. Now it seems normal to have an HD TV, but as it is at my grandma’s house, you can still see little dots and a buzzing sound from her 1999 Sony television. Just as Johsnon says, “thirty years ago, viewers had no recourse available to them if they wanted to watch a scene again… there were no second acts. (167) If a person wanted to watch a show again “they had to wait six moths” for the channel to play it again. Now, we can stop, record, rewind, forward, all our movies and TV shows. And if we missed it, we can download them or buy them. Now its so easy!

Visual Vocabulary:

Genuine: truly what something is said to be; authentic.

Correlation: a mutual relationship or connection between two or more things.

Vigorous: strong, healthy, and full of energy.

Intertwine: twist or twine together.