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Have You Seen the Movie The Net (1995)?

   1995 is the year that I was born. To see how much technology has improved since the day I was born, it is truly amazing. Have you seen the Techno Thriller, starring Sandra Bullock, The Net (1995)? I actually watched the movie quite recently, probably my junior year summer. It was quite entertaining to see how she is running around trying to protect her floppy disk. (Did you know that kids these days have never seen nor used these floppy disks, and that they do not understand why the save button on their Document programs is that "little square-thing").

  This blogpost about the very first touch screen phone reminded me of this culture shock I had recently and my personal experience with watching The Net.  Apparently, there was a touchscreen phone in the movie, which I do not remember at all. This first touch screen smartphone was created by Simon in the early 1990s. However, why weren't smart phones a big hit till quite recently? This article points out a very great point. "Groundbreaking products require a rich ecosystem before the “big idea” can become truly useful or widespread... what was needed included fast networks, Web browsers, and a whole lot of apps waiting to be pulled off the Internet. In the early 1990s, none of these were available." 

   Not only the design, trend, and just the technology itself, the "market  environment" also plays a big role in the technology market. In order for an idea to succeed, I realized that it requires timing and the surrounding as well.