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Impact of Technology nowadays

Jan 17, 2014 1:30AM PST

Hi Dear all:

I am a postgraduate student here in the UK and I am doing research of comsumption behaviour about technology. Can you please tell me what has the technology changes your life during recent years? How do you think about this issue? In my point of view, it is a thing can connect us, but also can isolate us. Can you please tell me more about your feelings? Thanks

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The biggest effect is you're going to paid less.
Jan 17, 2014 1:35AM PST

Let's look at "apps." While Apple paid out a record number of billions to app developers a recent study found if you divided it up among every app that worked out to 8 dollars per app.

There's also the new "shared economy" (AirBNB, Uber) that is ripping up old companies.

Hope you didn't take out a student loan.
Bob

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re
Jan 17, 2014 3:25AM PST

Is there any necessary collection between technology and consumption behaviour? For example, you mentioned about "Apps", To what extent do you think it has changes your lifestyle? Thanks R,,

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It changed our business direction.
Jan 17, 2014 5:53AM PST

We decided to forget consumer apps and re-focus on B2B and corporate apps. These being more profitable (more than 8 bucks a year per app!) we can then sustain the business.
Bob

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QR code?
Jan 17, 2014 7:10PM PST

In B2B markets, how do you think about QR code?

Thanks Bob

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It's like URLs on your media.
Jan 18, 2014 12:03AM PST

Something you might add. There's no debate about it anymore EXCEPT that it can be jarring as the bad folk paste them up and take folk to bad sites.

http://econsultancy.com/blog/62397-qr-codes-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly covers the not so dark aspect but imagine if your page had an out of date security security certificate (they note that.)

What if you took them to a pron site? QR codes could quickly be avoided by many.
Bob

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digital cameras
Jan 17, 2014 2:42AM PST

and larger hard drives to store the photos on. Low cost communications from fiber optic systems.

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Very interesting subject!
Jan 17, 2014 7:11AM PST

I'm one of the older people here (I'm 75), so I can remember well before anybody (outside of maybe MIT) had computers or anything else digital. When I was a kid back in the 40s, phones were rotatry, everybody had party lines, and long distance was both expensive and time consuming because you always had to go through an operator. There was no direct distance dialing. Cameras were the old film kind so it was usually a week or more before you got your film developed and could see how your pictures turned out. There was no TV and radios were bulky with vacuum tubes. Transistors hadn't been invented. Lasers hadn't been invented. There were no satellites. TV came along in the late 40s with small black & white picture tubes, and they required constant tuning. There were no remotes. Cars were all manual shift, automatic transmissions didn't come along until the mid 50s as best as I recall. Everything was mechanical in cars, ignition used a coil and distributor, engines were fueled by carburetors (no fuel injectors). Stereo hadn't been invented, let alone surround sound. Music was on 78 RPM records, nobody had tape recorders outside of radio stations, and CDs hadn't been invented (neither had lasers). If you needed to find out about something you didn't know, you had to go find a bulky encyclopedia. The Internet hadn't been invented, let alone PCs and tablets.
I've always been very technically oriented, but there was no computer science curriculum in colleges in the late 50s, so I majored in math, taking as many numerical analysis courses as I could. After getting my masters degree in '63, I got a job as a scientific programmer in an aerospace company writing Fortran programs on (what else?) punched cards. Very few folks had disk drives, and when they came along, they were the size of a refrigerator and held only a few dozen MB.
The rest of my career was in the computer field, so to say technology has changed my life would be an extreme understatement. Now I have 4 desktops, a laptop, two tablets, two digital cameras, and a smart phone at home. Phone service is with my ISP (VOIP), and I can direct dial anywhere in the continental US at no charge.
Oh yes, physics and astronomy. Back in the 60s we thought electrons, protons, and neutrons made up everything. Now we know that even everything we know about ordinary matter comprises only around 5% of the universe. It was not until right recently did we learn that there were already hundreds of discovered planets in our galaxy.
Health care has changed incredibly. Antibiotics and thousands of new drugs, C-T scans, MRI scans, much less invasive surgical procedures, and sophisticated prosthetics just to name a few.

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Thanks so much
Jan 17, 2014 8:53AM PST

Thanks so much for your comment and it was really helpful to my research. I'm collecting data at this moment, can I ask you futher questions if there is a need?


Best wishes

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(NT) Sure, why not.
Jan 17, 2014 8:54AM PST
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how about QR code
Jan 17, 2014 7:16PM PST

Hello again, do you usually use the QR code today? Not only in the buniness, but also in the life.

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Most things here still use the bar code
Jan 18, 2014 5:29AM PST

I've started seeing the QR code on a lot of things in the last year or two, so it's pretty new where I am. When I buy things, I believe they still use the bar codes. At least in the grocery stores and Home Depot stores I don't remember seeing QR codes. Maybe when I go to the local computer stores they use them, but there's always a cashier doing the scanning in them.