I come from a country named El Salvador which lagged behind on technology. We didn’t get Nintendo 64 until a few years after the U.S got it but even so it was an amazing console to the young me. I moved here when I was 10 and was thrown into school with no idea on how to speak English. Now I am commuting to UW Seattle to pursue a major on Informatics. I am taking the TINST 207 because I feel like with my major and even just with our lives in general learning about the virtual world is important to our society more since it changes at a great speed. Coming to the United States I could see the difference in how much El Salvador was lagging but as time went on and I catch up with my family back home I can see that even in El Salvador which would take a while to receive all the technology the U.S. would get is now pretty easy for them to obtain social media accounts like Snapchat and Instagram. I am excited to learn more about the progress we have made in technology and how imbedded technology is with our normal lives and privacy.
Dinosaurs
The last couple of classes we talked about companies and how they competed with each other with the web coming out. It was really interesting to hear that the ones who made it after the dot.com bomb were the ones that made it and now are some of the most powerful companies that we have, like Amazon and Apple. Aol who now is even rare to see an email from it was one of the leaders a couple of years ago, and because of how fast technology changes it is not a big player anymore. Companies adopting change is what made them stay relevant and survive. It was also interesting how many companies like Microsoft were not interested changing to get more integrated and that could have been the end for them but still they got out of the dot.com crisis and are one of the biggest companies. Making so much money that even if they stopped now they would still be making money. So many companies becoming extinct like the dinosaurs was a great way to comparison, also on how slow and p
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