On September 9th, Apple Inc. released its newest version of iTunes. This 9.0 version is the biggest revision that iTunes has ever received in it’s nine years of existence. This got me thinking. Nine years ago, I was only eleven years old but I was still interested in technology. I was in a computer class in my middle school and I remember using iTunes 1.0 for some projects in the class. In nine years, iTunes has changed so drastically that if when you look at iTunes 1.o compared to iTunes 9.0, they barely look like the same product. I’ve included screenshots below.
Seeing how far this single program has come in nine years made me start thinking about the entire world of technology and how much it has changed in that same nine years. Nine years ago, if you had a computer with 16 megabytes of RAM, you had a fast computer. That was enough RAM to do your basic computer tasks such as email and internet browsing without problems. Now? If my computer had 16 MB of RAM it wouldn’t turn on. Technology has come so far in such a short amount of time that it’s almost impossible to see where it is going. Nine years ago people would have never guessed your cellphone could browse the internet or be able to take pictures. Where are our cellphones going to be nine years from now? Is the Apple iPhone going to have a 32 Megapixel camera and two terabytes of storage? Anything is possible.
I realized that the evolution of technology has affected so many part of our lives. Namely, media. YouTube and Hulu are growing faster than any of the major networks: ABC, NBC, FOX. With this shift towards the internet as people’s primary medium, the way companies advertise their products or services is also changing. This leads me to this video:
This video speaks volumes for itself. It shows how the internet is changing the world of advertising, social networking, media, and our lives as we know it. I highly recommend that anybody who might be reading this to watch the whole video. You might just learn something about the internet and where it may be going.
