(Obsolete Technology)

VERSUS

(Emerging Technology)
History of the Filmstrip
(Obsolete Technology)

•Popular in the 1960s

•Used in the 1970s and ‘80s

•Still used today in countries

without TVs

•First used for military training

 Tetrad of the Filmstrip
(Obsolete Technology)

Enhancement: Obsolescence:
•Provides audio & visual •Replaces still pictures
•Provides movies in •Replaces slides
educational setting
Obsolete Technology:
Filmstrip
Reversal:
Retrieval:
•Replaced by videos,
•Rekindles field trips
DVDs, Web 2.0 tools, such
•Rekindles plays
as Glogster
Watch an Actual Filmstrip
(Obsolete Technology)

(converted to video and uploaded to YouTube)

Bike Safety
(about 7 minutes……………..created in 1948)
History of the DVD, Online Videos, & Web 2.0 Tools
(Emerging Technology)

Enhancement: Obsolescence:
•Provides audio & visual •Replaces still pictures
online •Replaces slides
•Provides access to •Replaces filmstrip
greater repertoire of
materials
Emerging Technology:
Video, DVDs, Web 2.0 Tools such as Glogster

Retrieval: Reversal:
•Rekindles field trips •Replaced by virtual
•Rekindles plays reality
•Rekindles educational TV •Replaced by holographic
TV
 History of the DVD, Online
Videos, & Web 2.0 Tools
(Emerging Technology)

DVD

•Developed in the early 1990s

•In 2003, DVD sales and rentals soared

History of the DVD, Online Videos, & Web 2.0 Tools
(Emerging Technology)

Watch the Video

How It’s Made: How DVDs & CDs are Made
 History of the DVD, Online
Videos, & Web 2.0 Tools
(Emerging Technology)

Online Video

•Popularity enabled by broadband speeds in 2004

•In 2005, video enthusiasts organized and combined their

efforts to make online videos popular, as well as video

conventions and production methods

History of the DVD, Online
Videos, & Web 2.0 Tools
(Emerging Technology)

History of Online Video and YouTube

 History of the DVD, Online
Videos, & Web 2.0 Tools
(Emerging Technology)

Glogster
•Founded in 2007
•Embed in wikis, blogs, and websites
•Videos, as well as text and graphics, can be embedded
in this online poster (a.k.a.: Web 2.0 tool)
History of the DVD, Online Videos, & Web 2.0 Tools
(Emerging Technology)

Glogster EDU Basic Video Tool

Excerpts from Interviews of Obsolete Technology:
The Filmstrip
Excerpts from Interviews of Emerging Technology:
DVDs, Online Videos, & Web 2.0 Tools
The Six Forces that Drive Emerging Technologies:

Evolutionary Technology Rhymes of History

New technology that is an Technology that rekindles

improvement of a previous one. something from the distant past.

Science Fiction Disruptive Technologies

New technology that is Technology that suddenly
scientifically-based and emerges appears and provides new insights
from science fiction. to a technological task.

Increasing Returns Red Queens

One technology is chosen and Two technologies maintain fierce

one technology disappears. competition while ahead of others.
 The Filmstrip & Evolutionary Technology

New technology that is an improvement of a previous one.

The filmstrip:
•improvement over lectures
•replaced slide shows
•combined motion, audio, and visual
 Rhymes of History

Technology that rekindles something from the distant past.

The filmstrip:
•rekindled slide shows
•lectures with photos & posters
 Science Fiction

New technology that is scientifically-based

and emerges from science fiction.

The filmstrip:
•possibly projected as seeing the future
“like a movie”
 Disruptive Technologies

Technology that suddenly appears and

provides new insights to a technological task.

The filmstrip:
•gives new meaning to slide shows
with movement and audio
 Disruptive Technologies

Technology that suddenly appears and

provides new insights to a technological task.

The filmstrip:
•gives new meaning to slide shows
with movement and audio
 Increasing Returns

One technology is chosen and one technology disappears.

The filmstrip:
•slide shows eventually disappear
 Red Queens
Two technologies maintain
fierce competition while ahead of others.

The filmstrip:
•”Red Queen” would be the slide show
 Evolutionary Technology

New technology that is an improvement of a previous one.

The DVD, online videos, & Web 2.0 Tools:

•replaced filmstrips & slide shows
•more durable than filmstrip
•better audio and visuals
 Rhymes of History

Technology that rekindles something from the distant past.

The DVD, online videos, & Web 2.0 Tools:

•rekindled plays
•rekindled educational tv
•rekindled field trips
•rekindled going to the movie theater
 Science Fiction

New technology that is scientifically-based

and emerges from science fiction.

The DVD, online videos, & Web 2.0 Tools:

•time travel
•holographic imaging
 Disruptive Technologies

Technology that suddenly appears and

provides new insights to a technological task.

The DVD, online videos, & Web 2.0 Tools:

•embed video in a “vinyl-like” disc
•embed video on disc instead of video cassette
 Increasing Returns

One technology is chosen and one technology disappears.

The DVD, online videos, & Web 2.0 Tools:

•DVD chosen over slide show, filmstrip, and video
cassette
 Red Queens
Two technologies maintain
fierce competition while ahead of others.

The DVD, online videos, & Web 2.0 Tools:

•DVD, online videos, and Web 2.0 tools in fierce
competiton leaving slide show and filmstrip behind
 Conclusions
Future of the DVD, online videos, and Web 2.0 Tools:

•HD-DVD (blue laser technology)

 Conclusions
Future of the DVD, online videos, and Web 2.0 Tools:

•Small tube vs large tube (computer screen vs tv screen)

 Conclusions
Future of the DVD, online videos, and Web 2.0 Tools:

•Holographic tv & video: the third generation (year 2025)

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YouTube video uploaded Bike Safety—dbostrom on March 21, 2008…A Cathedral

Filmstrip from 1948