Technology's Long Tail
Submitted by SimonB on 24 February, 2008 - 01:42.
The video below is from a talk that Chris Anderson gave at a TED conference.
Running Time: 14 minutes
Source: Chris Anderson: Technology's Long Tail
Chris Anderson, the guy who coined the phrase "the long tail", explores the four key stages of any viable technology. To demonstrate, Anderson explores the evolution of the DVD player as it passes through each of these four tipping points, then offers specific examples of current trends in technology.
4 Stages of a technologies life
- Critical price - it has become affordable
- Critical mass - 20% of house holds have one
- Another technology - displacing an established technology
- Free (nearly) - becoming ubiquitous
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