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2024 FUTURE OF COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
Holly BaldwinCOMM303
INTERNET
The effort to globalize the internet is just beginning in
2014. Threat of cyber terrorism and internet security
issues will probably inhibit this initiative. These credible
concerns will likely result in national services monitored
by each homeland government. By 2024 one outcome
seems most imminent, Public Internet. Government run
and funded by American tax dollars it will be equally
available to all. I hope I’m incorrect and we will still
enjoy privatized net neutrality and relative transparency
in the United States.
Uses and Gratifications Theory
Social behavior theory that states participants use technology
to attain certain goals. Users are empowered by their choices
instead of victims of media effects.
“Three main categories of gratifications:
Content: Uses for the Internet include the need for
researching or finding specific information or material,
which are gratified with content.
Process: Users gain gratification from the experience of
purposeful navigating or random browsing of the Internet in
its functional process.
Social: Uses encompass a wide range of forming and
deepening social ties.”
MEDICAL IMPLANTS
Moore’s Innovation Adoption Rate
In the near future many serious health conditions will be
monitored and possibly remotely controlled by web
enabled medical implants. The “Graying of America “ and
public insurance will necessitate a need for innovative
healthcare procedures. Estimates of more than 72M older
Americans by 2030 almost doubles today’s elderly
population total. By 2024 we will have crossed the chasm
from early adopters to early or late majority adopters.
MOBILE DEVICES
Critical Mass Theory
Universal access is the stage of Critical Mass Theory
when the media has completely saturated the
population. In 2014 we have already reached the
“tipping point” in which more users have adopted the
technology than not. I believe by 2024 almost everyone
on our planet will be internet enabled by mobile devices.
These users’ will control almost all aspects of their daily
lives with this technology. A current United Nations’
study has revealed more people have cell phones than
have access to toilets. That last statistic is a sobering
divination of the future priority of this pervasive media.
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