In Who Owns the Media, the author discusses how when he first saw a cell phone a sense of awe came upon the author as they realized that this was our future. For me that experience involved an iPod. I first got one when the generation one version came out and my dad thought it would be a cool idea to get all the kids iPod's so we would not have to deal with scratched CD's anymore. I remember thinking that now, thanks to the iPod, I was a member of the technologically advanced society. I would take it to school and show all my friends how I did not need a CD, I could just play music with no trouble. I loved the idea that all my music could just sit in this bulky item and I would never have to carry a CD case around ever again.
My second experience involved when my family first got my brother a Nintendo 64. We got it for Christmas and I had never been more excited to play video games in my life. The idea of having our own device in which we could play mario kart on for hours thrilled me beyond belief. I remember thinking that we were cool kids now because we had the ability to play video games whenever we wanted and never had to go over to the neighbors ever again (of course we did though.) At the time I thought nothing better could come out, until the year my brother got an Xbox and I was fascinated all over again.
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Out of curiosity, are these sequential? I thought the N64 is older than the iPod, but maybe the iPod has been around longer than I remember.
ReplyDeleteThe first generation ipod was released in 2001 and the N64 was released in 1996. But i get your point Jason from the way the events happen it does seem sequential but in-fact is not. I love technology and congrats Anna I did not get my first ipod until I was a junior in high school. I definitely understand the frustrations of cds.
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