Week 2 Reflections

Within the conferences this week we had to read about some emerging technologies and I selected to look deeper into Social Television.  It is a very interesting topic because it is a hybrid of two already existing technologies that are used in completely different ways.  This new emerging technology is looking to take both of these previous technologies and merge them into basically a virtual version of the "water cooler" or some other social gathering at which people talk about what happened on the latest episode of their favorite technology.  I already have some personal experience with this technology through the Boxee program although I don't use the program to its fullest as I barely use the social media aspects of the program.  The overall concept of the technology that I described above is also interesting to think about in the general concept as it shows how a new technology can emerge by trying to use an old technology or social event as a source of inspiration for new ideas.