I have written recently regarding the new electronic frontier that is Web 2.0.
It is interesting to monitor the uptake of this new technology. Not on a population level (although I'm sure that's interesting too. Facebook has literally exploded in the past few months in my demographic. From zero to everywhere.), but rather on a personal level.
More specifically, who have been the early adopters and who have been the late stragglers?
Malcolm Gladwell has written about the hunt for cool and the characteristics of those cutting that edge. I think there is a certain open-mindedness that is needed to be the first to innovate, but my thoughts on this topic remain largely unformed.
I have, however, noticed a bit of a trend among my friends who've been resistant to the "new" web. They were among the very first online, back when "the web" was still a novelty. They were online back when the internet was text-based, and "Freenet" and "MUDs" were in vogue.
They were in fact, the very cutting edge of Web 1.0!
...and yet they were the last to adopt to Web 2.0?
What gives? Perhaps those who resist Web 2.0 are those who have the most invested in Web 1.0?
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It's just that I have become very comfortable with the "old" way of doing things - I'm an old dog who can't keep up with all these new tricks.
However, given my profession, you'd certainly hope I'd be able to continue picking up new tricks, else I'll be unemployed by the time web 3.0 rolls around!
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