Diffusion of Innovations

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How is it that some technological innovations get taken up by the masses, and others don’t? How important are innovators and early adopters in this?
Well Mr. Rogers apparently wrote the bible on this:

Rogers, E.M. (1995). Diffusion of innovations (4th edition). The Free Press. New
York.

Here’s the theory laid out in bare bones with an applied example

Here’s a point by point precis
http://www.ksu.edu/humec/atid/UDF/diffusion_model.htm
and here’s a precis of the theory.

New form of cyberpunk offshoot – InfernoKrusher!

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Thus, (excerpts from) Notes Toward an Infernokrusher Manifesto:

Explosion is the new transgression. Demolition is the new deconstruction.
[—Benjamin Rosenbaum]

More than the death of the Reader, Infernokrusher prizes the sudden, violent dismemberment of the Reader

Infernokrusher fiction explodes stagnant genre conventions, e.g., that it’s not okay to have all your characters run over by a monster truck in what would seem to be the middle of the story

While other attitudes to art yearn to communicate truths, to move people, to challenge, or to entertain, infernokrusher art wants to blow stuff up

Birdflu

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El reg has a good article on birdflu. Why haven’t my local media outlets reported on events such as [Feb 2005] report of probable person to person transmission of bird flu in Vietnam? I find that to be a little more interesting that, say, the latest creepy news from the Michael Jackson Trial.

P2P transmission of new strains of flu = really, really bad in case you haven’t being paying attention (which, let’s face it, is probably the case..)

Fantasy Living

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How sad to say goodbye to that world of wonder magic and colour which exists in our everyday lives, if only you look at it!

The everyday things you see and take for granted are miracles of some force we don’t really know of – Darwin, God, they are all only partial explanations for the magic of a daisy, a grain of sand or the ocean thudding onto the beach. These small things are the creatures of a world that not many see, when they pave the world with concrete and bricks.

The wonder and delight of a child looking at an entirely new world are treasures that life gives us, but why let it stop from childhood? Every day is filled with entirely new occurences, experiences, faces, all to be enjoyed, lived and felt. All part of a fairytale reality if you let yourself be inhabited by it.

Don’t brick up your heart, the princess is real, fairies exist and the story is true.