Week 11: Diffusion of Innovations

To read about how the diffusion of smart phones happened read here. If asked what the most influential piece of technology in the last 20 years was many would say the smart phone. This answer is so important because the serve essentially as computers now but also went from something few owned or had access to then became something where everyone is expected to have one on their person at all times. When looking at how diffusion happened with smart phones began with the early adapters who tended to be upper-class young people but there then exposing them to others quickly made them start to take off. Then it became more mainstream do to the iphone's wide range of apps giving them more uses both practical and entertainment wise. Soon after they were cemented in mainstream sense they became a part of other aspects of life such as widely being used in work due to the fact that everyone being able to have internet access had huge work advantages due to them being able to have access to unlimited information. Overall they have become so involved in our society that they are possible the quickest technology in recent memory to be diffused so heavily sense people in developed countries are now expected to not only own them but carry them at all times.