Prepare for change

Digital Life: Today & Tomorrow from Neo Labels on Vimeo.

This infographic about 15 facts about the internet in 2015 made me think about the forecasting of change and how it has become a cultural convention we live by. I wonder, why does everything have to change? Technologically speaking, why the future has to be different?

Gadgets have their own features and programmes, and these are languages. Interactive media changes in relation to how the user uses it, so the language changes all the time and we have to adapt to it. Communication gets broken all the time. Some people adapt and some give up in the process. For example, some good friends I used to communicate via Facebook with have stopped using it because they didn't want to invest time in learning the new rules and our connection broke up. I ended up communicating with those who didn't give up and adapt.

All these constant changes, are they needed? Maybe it's just because information technology has hit the consumer market so then media is treated as a commercial product at the mercy of the laws of competition, and that promotes constant innovation. But at what cost? Changes on the flavour of a soda doesn't affect us much, but changes in the tools and languages we use to communicate online jeopardizes the construction of our identity and our social relations.