Out with the Old, In with the New

Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon Man lived together, but the Neanderthal didn’t make it. SUVs and hybrids drove the roads together, but SUVs didn’t make it. Pay tolls and Speed Pass collected money together, but the pay tolls didn’t make it. Supermarket checkout staff and self-pay kiosks bagged groceries, but the checkout staff didn’t make it. Land lines and cell phones made calls, but the land lines didn’t make it. Print newspapers and the internet reported the news, but the newspapers didn’t make it. Printed maps and GPS told you where to go, but printed maps didn’t make it. Film cameras and digital cameras shot images, but the film cameras didn’t make it. Books and the Kindle and iPad told stories, but the books didn’t make it. Google and other internet search engines found content, but the other internet search engines didn’t make it. MySpace and Facebook connected you to friends, but MySpace didn’t make it.

The past lives alongside the future as progress marches on. What will be the next Neanderthal in 2010?

Tagged as: 2010, change, Cro-Magnon Man, evolution, Facebook, iPad, Kindle, MySpace, Neanderthals, progress

bournesocial

Once the sun spots destroy all of our online data, we'll all go back to paper, or like the cavemen, charcoal and cave walls. :>)

jkali

I don't think Kindle and iPad will usurp books. Kindle and iPad will be Neanderthals and another technology will take over before books are obsolete.

egeisler

I am certain that I am alone in my thinking here. But I feel 2010 will be the year that Twitter becomes the Neanderthal.

bournesocial

There are a lot of people who feel similarly. With any new technology that resonates, it's tapping into a human behavior, and in the instance of Twitter, people want to connect with other people without barriers, and they want to know what individuals and the masses are thinking. Nothing out there now enables this better. But, certainly there are people who will be content to observe, those who will want to pass along, and those who will want to be creators of content. Whether that's Twitter or something that hasn't even been invented yet, the behavior will remain.

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