"Invisible"

If Shirky is right, and we’re headed to a period where social media tools like YouTube, Flickr, and social networks like Facebook become “invisible,” what’s the impact on things you spend money on as consumers? Books? Movies? Music?

            I think the impact of the things we spend money on, like books, movies, and music, are in the middle between visible and invisible. I think the tangible things, like clothes and books have become invisible in Shirky’s terms in that they have been around since we have been born so we don’t really think anything of them; they aren’t something new. I think other things like music and movies are a little more invisible just because we can’t touch them and at least for our generation they have been around since we can remember. From what I got from the book, these things become invisible because we don’t take a second to think about them, they are just are an everyday part of our life and we sometimes or a lot of times take them for granted. It’s hard to even think about or get our heads around the fact that once upon a time there wasn’t even electricity to turn a light on, let alone power a whole houseful of technological toys and gadgets. I know I personally take a lot of these things mentioned above, like music, movies, internet, books, etc. for granted because they have been a part of my life for awhile if not since I was born. This, to me, has turned many of these things to become “invisible”.