Why People Adopt

When looking back at inventions in the past it easy to see why people started to use them. These inventions were ground breaking and had a lot of impact on how people went about their daily lives. In the other hand when looking at these inventions it is also notable that not everyone got on board right at the start. Why is this? Well when look at the Diffusion Theory it noticeable that their were some early adopters, some late adopters, and some people that never used it. 

An example of a invention that went through people deciding if they should take part of it or not is the USB Flash Drive. When people were deciding if they should use the product. They were thinking about the positives and negatives of switching from the old technology of the floppy disc or switch to the flash drive. The flash drive first come to the market in 2000 and began more popular around 2004. 

The reason people became early adopters of the flash drive is because they saw the potential of the flash drive. When they saw it first come out they saw it was smaller, easier, more storage, and was going to be popular soon. For the people that we called early adopters for the flash drive they saw the positives the flash drive had and wanted to be apart of it. For the late adopters they came around in 2004 when it was really popular. The reason they came around is because, the flash drive design started to become more and more creative. For example companies started to put their logos on the flash drive and they could get basically any amount of storage they wanted. Then lastly for the people that never adopted were people that never really got involved in technology in general. For example my gram would be a person that never used the flash drive. She never got into technology so the negatives of getting involved in all the technologies and the flash drive would never be less the positives. 

 In the end the flash drive had a lot of people that did use it, but in the end their will be always people that never adopt a new invention. This does not take anything away from the flash drive it just every person has a scale on the cost and benefit and some will never see the benefit to adopting a new invention. 

Antiwar in media

When watching the news channels or visiting their websites, people do not normally see antiwar on these channels. The news sources like CNN, FOX, and BBC have a lot of power in the sense of the people they reach when they air a certain story on their platforms. Whenever they put out a story, they can reach at least a million people. Since they have a big platform like this, why do they not put both antiwar and prowar stories on their platform? When looking for information on antiwar, it is crazy that people need to go to uncommon websites like antiwar.com to find information on antiwar instead of a big news source. 

When going into the website antiwar.com, people can see many articles that they would have

normally not have seen if they just got the news off big news sources. One of the reasons that antiwar is not as seen today is because of the way Vietnam Veterans were treated when they arrived home from the war. I know, for me personally, when my grandfather came home, he told me stories how people would do outlandish things to him just because he fought in the war. This has a lot of impact on this generation today because I know this happened to a lot of veterans and I would not want to be part of a cause that did something to my grandfather and that could be said for a lot of people. 

Another reason is people do not feel the wars like they used to. What that means is people currently living in the United States are not the ones people killed a lot. In previous wars, they would send so many people over seas and many would not come back. In today world, yes many soldiers do die, but not on the scale it was back then. In an article from NPR, it talks about the new technology that the military uses, such as drones and other forms of technology to fight wars. This means less people feel the affects of the war. 

Even though the reasons I stated before are true and why many people do not either post or want to be apart of the antiwar cause, people still need to get the news about it. When people get one side of a story, like prowar, then they are more likely to go along with it and just be okay with that one side. In today society, we need both sides of whatever cause. Also, news sources need to be unbiased and not just have prowar guest come on shows, they need to have both so people can see both sides and choose which one they want to be apart of. 

USB Flash Drive

When people think about storage they think about the cloud where they have everything stored in. But before people could do that they needed to have a USB flash drive. The USB flash drive really took over the use of storing and transferring data between devices. The Flash drive has evolved over the years and now can hold any where from two gigabits to two terabits. As technology has expanded and people have more and more data online. The more and more storage they need to store. The USB Flash drive is not used as often today because of new technology and the negatives that it has but never the less, it was a stepping stone in our technology on how we store data and transfer data.  

When the USB flash drive first came out their was a debate on who first invented it. The reason being there were a couple companies coming up with the idea and their was a race to come out with it first. Stated in the article from Britannica talks about how a company call M-Systems got the patent for the USB flash drive but IBM sent in an document that was over ten years old saying they already invented the flash drive.  Even though the flash drive invention was up in the air on who actually invented it first. It still was a high used invention. It was developed very quickly and many people started using them. 

When going to the time the flash drive were invented the only way people could store things was on a floppy discs. According to an article from FlashStore at the time people needed a new way to store saved information without a power source. Which solved the problem people ran into of having to store information into a storage  place with a power source. This allowed people to store and transfer data or information more easily. 

This invention changed everyone life. When I was growing up my parents used them for everything. They would use them for keeping old photos of family members. People could them basically anyway they wanted to. For example, it changed the business world because it allowed people to upload their resume and have it with them instead of having print outs of the paper version. This was very useful because, instead of taking the time to print the resume out or not even have it with you. It allowed people to just give them the flash drive. 

Even though that the flash drive was used very often when it came out. People do not use it very often today. The reason being is that the flash drive does have some negative affects to it. according to the article from Pocketnow talks about how the disadvantages in today world and the technology we have today out weights the advantages the flash drive has. One of the major disadvantages the flash drive has is that most of the them are not encrypted. Keeping information safe is most people main priority. If they have a better option to keep the information safe then they are going to use the other option. Another disadvantage is the lifespan on the flash drive. It does have a good lifespan but in today society other technology has better. 

The flash drive has been used by many people and some people still use it today. Most people just use the online cloud to keep information but that being said who knows if the online cloud would have been invented if the flash drive was not invented. Since it has been invented for so long people have found the negative aspects of it but, it is still used today and it works great.