Lab+2

Lab 2: January 13, 2010

What "digital innovation" do you feel best deserves the title of revolutionary and why?

I feel that the computer deserves the title of revolutionary for many reasons. The technology lead to a progression of changes from analog to digital of other media while at the same time establishing itself as a new medium. The computer when combined with an internet connection can connect an immense amount of people and has lead to exponential growth of content and participation. Social networking websites would not be possible without the internet. The internet would not have been possible before the development of the computer. What good is an internet connection without a mechanism to use it?

The computer is a basic technology that comes in many forms and is intrinsic to many different objects; personal computers, cellular phones, factory machines, vehicles, all of which have been created around or improved by computer technology. Computers drive modern technology and we would be at a loss without them.

The computer is revolutionary in it's ability to bring together many tools. Although in the past decade new digital innovations have drastically changed the uses of the computer and the internet, the technology's ability to compute information in a way that allows you to "backspace," "save," and "delete" will always be seen as revolutionary as compared to the preceeding technology.