Friday, May 18, 2012

Technology and Marketing

Today I see more and more children with iPhones, iPods, and computer knowledge then every before.  My boss just received his first iPhone and his 6Th grade son, dubbed "The Wizard", showed him everything about it without even having his own phone.  How is this possible?  I believe that this age group should be named the tech babies, to go along with the baby boomers.

Technology is all around us.  It is impossible in today's world not to be a part of it.  Today could make one of the greatest, single most profitable days for a company, Facebook.  Although I do not know much about the market, I know that today Facebook went public and by following the Google financing page, it is currently at $40.56/ share and rising.
https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:FB

This article talks about how Facebook has decided to start publicly trading its "180,000,000 shares of Class A common stock and selling stockholders are offering 241,233,615 shares of Class A common stock" To me this is unreal how a man created such a simple concept into a multi-million dollar enterprise.  
http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/FB.O/key-developments

All of this has come down to technology.  As I am typing my computer is constantly editing my work.  It recognized facebook is not spelled correctly because I did not capitalize the F.

This video talks about technology and marketing, and how it has changed the world.
Without technology, marketing and the world would be a very different place.  Technology has helped change our world and make it possible for firms like Facebook, to be a leading in the marketing world.  Technology is inevitable, and if your firm is unable to adapt then you will be caste aside.

My only concern is will technology pass us, and The Matrix will become a reality?