Blog Post 8

When I think about an invention through the lens of the Diffusion Theory. I think back to the topic I discussed in my first EOTC project. In my first project, I researched the invention of Google. Google is to this day,
one of the most influential pieces of technology ever created. 

Google made anything and everything easier and quicker than ever before. The idea that one can just look up a topic and find millions of results on it was revolutionary to the future of the world. 

With revolutionary technology comes the necessary adaption to the human population and because of that we see a major impact across different generations. For instance, Generation Z children like myself have grown up surrounded by this technology and have learned to not only use it but borderline depend on it. If you asked a majority of kids my age to go into a library and research a topic, almost none of us would be able to do so effectively, but this is the complete opposite for older generations.

Take baby boomers as a prime example of this. Most of our parents fall into the Baby Boomer or Generation X timeline where they had to go through the complete change that technology like Google had caused. They watched the world change from no computers, to only the rich having them, to finally everyone having access to one.

Even with them being able to see the impact Google had on the world they still struggle to use technology half as well as those who now grew up with it just going to show the adaptation that the world has had to make with the rise in new technology.

All of this still doesn't go against the fact that Google has made a tremendous positive impact on the world.

Without Google, almost everything and anything we do online wouldn't be possible. All of those searches to different websites for businesses or for shopping would never have happened.

Some argue that there would have been other search engines that would have been developed even if Google hadn't been created however that argument is ridiculous because Sergey Brin and Larry Page were the creators of Google and it was the first ever search engine to be created. After Google, other developers began to create their own versions of it based on the domain that they created. That's why Google has always been the biggest and most developed of them all.

In sum, the development of Google was revolutionary to the world we live in today and through the lens of the Diffusion Theory is one of the most impactful pieces of technology known to man.