The Long Tail

In class last week, before we had our Labor Day holiday we looked at a comic called the Long Tail.  It portrayed how the world has changed and how technology has influenced it.  In two particular slides it shows the typical teenager and how they spent time in their room. Today's teenager had every gadget imaginable, a computer, gaming system, and a flat screen television.  The teenager of days gone by had posters hanging on their wall a stereo, and a "regular" television.  In today's world we have hundreds of channels to watch and all we have to do is punch the number in on the remote, years ago people only had a few channels to watch.  We have whatever we need at our fingertips, if we need a song, we can look it up, if we missed an episode of a tv show, and we didn't DVR it we can check it out on HULU, todays world is all about technolgogy.  Since our age group grew up with all of the new technology such as iPods, laptops, and Playstations, we sometimes wonder how the older generation lived without these inventions.