Yuhsuanchen’s Blog

1. Today digitial technologies are so pervasive that the storage medium for digitized data is getting comparative crucial. What kinds of mediums are robust, cost effective, long-lasting and efficient enough to store large amount of “individual” digitized data? How about DVDs, hard disks, microfilms or something else?

 
2. Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) is working well in Japan and BBC is fruitful in the UK as well. All these are initiated in the United States but prosperous in other countries instead. Why these creative systems couldn’t practice well in the United States? What policies or regulations should a government follow or enforce to assist the media industry?
 
3. How the culture factor will affect the gratification-opportunities in predicting new media usages? Just like the Apple’s Mac is so popular in western countries but not in Asia.

1.     How can patent accelerate the speed of the innovation-decision process? Sometimes, patent is a barrier for adopting a technology, so how can we alleviate the obstacle result from the patent?

2.     Besides the factor of the expected trajectory of performance improvement beyond the performance improvement required by mainstream market, what other factors may affect us to access promising disruptive technologies, such cost or something else?

3.     As the technology improving, many amateurs can dedicate in the professional field now. What is the trend for this kind of innovation or what existing industries that require specialized professionals today might become available to all tomorrow?

Seeing What’s Next – Part 1

1.     If you were the leader of YouTube, what would you do when you faced YouTube acquisition by Google? Accept the 1.6 billion deal, or reject it and find your way to dig the gold mine.

2.     Integration is a kind of innovation as well. How can we effectively integrate facebook, twitter, flickr, myspace and so on to be together? What are the obstacles that we need to break through?

3.     If you create a new technique, how you find correct applications and target appropriate market to avoid the technology being another parallel prototype said in Winston’s book.