Blog Post #6 - Reaction to Presentations

 The general information from the presentations included dates and the history of the invention followed by the impacts on communication it had. These inventions spanned from the making of paper thousands of years ago in China to the recent developments in cloud computing and Bluetooth in Silicon Valley, CA. In fact, one of the first interesting facts I hear during the presentations was that Bluetooth can be found in hearing aids, pacemakers, and refrigerators. I did not know this and it opened my eyes to how widespread Bluetooth technology is and how many different spaces it can be applied in. Another interesting fact I learned was, 2.6 billion emails are sent a day. This was mind-boggling to me. Especially because that means over 600 billion emails are sent every day. Email has vastly sped up technology and it got me thinking about how inventions that help speed up technology also speed up how quickly inventions are adopted and improved, making the advancement of technology move faster than it ever has before in an exponential trend. 

Before it took 20-30 years for one invention to actually become widely used and effective. Because of the increased speed of communication people can actually create new things and get the word out there faster. People can give feedback faster which is fixed faster so more things can be made faster. It creates the cycle of inventions being able to be adapted to the general public faster at a previously stated exponential rate.