Technology Adoption Time
Thursday, January 29, 2009 08:25 PM
Chances are, if you watch TV at all, you’ve seen numerous ads about the upcoming transition from analog to digital television. Just like when the campaign ads were playing, I cannot wait for this February 17th date to pass so that I will no longer have to view the same notices again and again. Recently however, there has been an attempt to delay the transition until June 12th. This motion passed the Senate, but initially failed in the House. Last week they approved it and it has been sent to the President’s desk for signing. One of the main arguments in favor of the delay that I have seen is that an estimated 6.5 million people are not yet prepared for this switch. Since I was also reading on my industry’s transition in HTML 5 and CSS 3, I got to thinking about our state of technology adoption.
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