End of An Era

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/10/22/an-era-ends-sony-stops-manufacturing-cassette-walkmans/
In this article it talks about how the Era of walkman cassette's has come to a close. It is amazing to think that in our lifetimes we have been through so much technology. When I was in grade school a walkman was the in thing to have as time progressed it changed to CD player the portable and non portable kind. The Era now is that of the iPod. In fact it seems that the last five to six years have been this era. Apple, it seems, first started this jump in the technological jump, and soon many other company's have followed. There are many shapes, sizes, and colors available, and at a wide variety of prices. It seems that technology is expanding by the minute now. We have talked in class about how it seems technology is starting to be the focal point of what the world is run on. The cassette was first made into production in 1979 with the idea of listening to music on the run, with today's technology there is so much more that can be done. With "smart phones" one can not only listen to the music that they have collected but any music that is available on the internet, along with communicating with others on many different forms of socializing networks. With technology today doing more than one thing at a time, and also being able to use one source of technology to do many things at one time seemed impossible, but now seems reasonable.

Emily