Post 9: Revolutionary Remediations

After thinking about the prompt, I can't say for sure that any one remediation is more revolutionary than any other. I think that we tend to focus on the technological advances themselves that may result in opportunities for remediation, but as we have learned remediation has been occurring since people first spoke, danced, or drew "realistic" figures in the dirt.

Despite this fact that remediation occurs everyday, it may be true that there is more remediation occurring now than at any previous time in history. Technological advances have allowed remediation to become easier. Now it is possible for most Americans to take pictures, scan books, download recipes off the internet onto their iPod, make them, and then send their suggested changes to be read by hundreds of people. I would argue that none of this remediation is exactly new, but that it has become a more important and pervasive part of our everyday lives.

If I did have to pick one thing that has revolutionized remediation, I would say that the internet, in all its glory, has connect more people and more media to each other than any single remediated work, or any other technology. I certainly wouldn't pick virtual reality.