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Job1:

Instructions: Go to

https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_how_play_leads_to_great_inventions

Click play and click on transcript (low right) so you can read the script as you listen and pause if you need.

In your discussion, how would you compare and contrast Steve Johnson, The King of Cause and Effect, with Rogers’ Diffusions of Innovations and  Gladwell’s Tipping Point? What are some similar diffusions of technology or cause and effects that you can find?

Respond with your first post by the second day the discussion is open to be eligible for full points. (Initial remarks after June 28 will be docked 3 points). Make your first remark to another students comments by the third day to be eligible for full points. Respond to at least two other students. Grammar, spelling, and the rest apply to this discussion also. Read all posts.

To receive full points you must use critical thinking and address all items. You must make a contrasting remark using diffusion of innovation terms in your responses to other students. To receive full credit you must provide references from the text to support your remarks.  (20 points)

Responses

Respond for 1:

Steven Johnsons idea of “The Cause and Effect” points out that innovations are made by either a person or a group of people because they are trying to solve a specific kind of problem. A problem is the cause for innovation.  In solving that problem, they have set ideas about what their invention is going to be good for, but what they can’t see is that there are going to be effects that will come out from that innovation. This is the basic reason behind evolution.

 

Taking it further Gladwell explains that a critical point in an evolving situation leads to a new and irreversible development. This critical point is called “The Tipping Point”. A tipping point is often considered to be a turning point. A tipping point is simply an addition to an innovation that in itself might not seem extraordinary but that unexpectedly is just the amount of additional change that will lead to a big effect. A tipping point may simply occur because a critical point has been reached.

 

Rogers’ Diffusions of Innovations explains how, over time, an idea or innovation gains momentum and spreads among people or social system. The end result of this diffusion is that people, as part of a social system, adopt a new idea, behavior, or product.

Respond for 2:

Steve Johnson, I would say, has a very different way of looking at various time periods.  Johnson looks at what a piece in time is and how it was used and how it has affected the future.  Rogers and Gladwell both do the same thing, but in their own way.  Gladwell, for one, has looked at the past and is evaluating how life may have been different if certain events did not happen. In chapter two of the “Tipping Point,” Gladwell points out that spreading the word from one person to another is a very good way to get information from one place to another.  Whereas Johnson looks at inventions and asks what other inventions were inspired by a previous invention.  For example, a simple piece of bone carved into a flute eventually inspired the modern computer.  Johnson states that, “You will find the future wherever people are having the most fun.”  In many ways, I, too, believe this.  For instance, when the latest and greatest social media application comes out, it seems that someone in their home is having fun and shares it with the public.  This in turn pushes the public experience of the app, which generates the desire for this new innovation and makes it an instant hit.  As for Rogers, he uses many ideas and theories to help the reader with the diffusion of innovations.  I feel that Rogers uses a step by step approach to define diffusion of innovation and how to implement it.  In essence, he would take Johnson’s bone to computer idea and break it down step by step and show how the idea of a flute could become an organ then a piano and eventually the typewriter.  Rogers would be interested in the driving force behind making these inventions and how these “new” inventions become so popular.  All in all, these three authors have very different approaches regarding how innovations become what they are today, but seemingly developed similar answers as a result.

 Citations

Gladwell, M. (2002). The Tipping Point.

Rogers, E. (2003). Diffusion of Innovations. 5th Ed.

Johnson, S. (2016). Ted Talk:  The Playful Wonderland Behind Great Inventions.

https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_how_play_leads_to_great_inventions