“It seems that as soon as equipment for and books on cyberspace, digital culture, and technology are published, they are outdated.” (Heather L. Hundley, 2005)
How true this statement is; how many times have we seen this with new technology. Technology moves at such a fierce pace that publishers can’t keep up with the escalated change. Look at the facts about digital communication culture: Facebook comes 2004 followed by Twitter in 2006-7 and now Google+. Now let us move at a quicker pace if the earlier was not fast enough. I will look at computer culture with Intel Co. as an example. Intel releases there i3, i5, i7 chips for faster computer processing in 2009 and just a year later manufactures their second generation chips. I cannot see how educators can keep up with the ever changing speed at which today’s technology changes. I believe that is why books for technology classes can change so quickly from semester to semester.
I believe that technology has moved to a pace that cannot be captured in stander book form for publishers to produce. We need to find new ways capture new information and deliver it for consumption and education; maybe a new digital way to quickly gather information will be more productive. The new direction in cloud services could be the new way to access and teach students.
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media; Mar2005, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p147-152, 6p
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Jerry B
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