Chromand - Desiging, Developing, and Marketing for the Interwebs

Today is a day that many think, hope, and believe that change has to come to these United States of America.  During Barack Obama’s Inauguration, two things stood out to me. Firstly, how embarrising must it be to flub on your oath in front of the entire nation like he did? Secondly, he made the statement “The world has changed and we must change with it”. This is a very true and thought-provoking statement, especially with the rapid expansion of technologies of our world today.

I’ve spent a lot of time in college studying technologies that are younger than I am, working a job that didn’t exist 20 years ago. Sometimes I just sit and marvel at all of things I have my parents could dream of:  video games, computers, even a blog.

It’s changing the way we communicate. How would you talk to your friends without cell phones, e-mail, text messaging, or facebook? Things like this have gone from novelty to niche to nessecary. Most people I know don’t ever personally invite people to parties anymore, they should send out mass messages on facebook.

It’s changing the way we think. Studies have shown that younger generations have become more accustomed to processing information in an entirely different way. They process more information quicker, but forget more and don’t “learn” as much in the traditional sense. Why should I memerize every single CSS property and PHP function in the library when they are always a couple of clicks away?

The thing to rememer is how quickly things in technology, and especially the internet, are changing. Think about things were like 15 years ago, and how different they are now. Do you plan on living another 15 years? If you said yes, you should learn to be well adapted to change, because you haven’t seen anything yet. Most of the knowledge we all have now is transient, and isn’t going to mean very much years down the road.