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1-The 5th wave followed the post-Second World War industrial changes and innovations such as plastics, electronics, and the jet engine (Comtois, Rodrigue, & Slack, 2013). The 5th Wave moves beyond the industrial changes and focuses on information systems, communications, and logistics (Comtois, Rodrigue, & Slack, 2013). This is evident by the improvements and expansions seen in cellular communications (Butterworth, 2010). Can anyone even remember using 3G data services anymore? We quickly moved from just making phone calls to being able to search the internet from a smart phone utilizing 4G data services (Butterworth, 2010). The changes are coming quickly, with new services and new devices hitting the market faster than consumers can purchase. Other examples of technology innovation in the 5th wave include internet, streaming television, GPS, social networking, and mobile connectivity (Butterworth, 2010). Transportation utilizes experimentation, introduction, adoption, diffusion, and obsolescence when developing technology (Comtois, Rodrigue, & Slack, 2013). In the world of transportation, innovation in the 5thwave includes GPS tracking, RFIDs, logistics software.
There are some that believe we are soon to enter the 6th wave, if we haven't already started a slow transition, which will focus more on resource efficiency (Norgrady, 2010). There are companies, such as the Hershey Company, that have pushed toward less waste or zero-waste production facilities. Companies that have adopted policies to utilize only sustainable products and resources. That could be considered a move into the 6th wave. As resources become scarcer and the concern for the environment increases, the movement towards the 6th wave may overlap the end of the 5th wave expected 2020 time frame. "Innovations are no longer the results of individual efforts, but are organized and concerted actions whose results are rapidly diffused (Comtois, Rodrigue, & Slack, 2013)." The time frames will progressively become shorter moving from wave to wave. Are we done with innovation in information systems as widely seen in the 5th wave? No, we will continue to see changes, improvements, and new systems and devices created even after movement into the 6th wave.
2-The 5th wave of technology centers on the computer. The biggest piece of this we interact with daily is the internet. The first ripples of this wave harken back to the Air Force's Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) network and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) initial military network research (Burnam-Fink, 2011). While this slowly reached the civilian world in the 1970s, it didn't really become noticeable until the early 1980s. I would say the 5th wave really started with the advent of the bulletin board system (The BBS Corner, 2009). This enabled the first mass digital data sharing. All types of information were posted on the virtual "cork-and-pin bulletin board" according to The BBS Corner's report. As modem speeds increased, the amount of information increased and graphics were shared as well.
As the internet grew in prominence, it assimilated much of the bulletin board structure, while expanding in new directions. Finally weaned off telephone modems beginning with the 21st century, the media content shot through the roof. Download speeds and file sizes dwarf the capacities of computer hardware from the late 90's. The advances have started leveling off though. New breakthroughs are slower in coming and people have settled in and started to get comfortable with the new technology (Burnam-Fink, 2011). Still, the business world is coming to grips with this and adapting (Butterworth, 2010). As this occurs over the next few years and we really start to normalize, then the time will be ripe for the next big wave of technology.
Looking out now, I see the 5th wave lasting past 2020 and even into 2030 before another innovative cycle begins. I say this because those technologies that have the potential to turn into a major changer are still small and extremely rare and expensive. Were I an oracle, my bet would be interplanetary or deep sea living and manned exploration on a large scale. We will have to wait and see how my vision turns out.
Burnam-Fink, M. (2011, May 3). Waves of Innovation Retrieved March 20, 2017, from Science Progress: https://scienceprogress.org/2011/05/waves-of-innovation-2/
The BBS Corner (2009, November 29). The BBS Corner - A Brief History of BBS Systems Retrieved March 20, 2017, from The BBS Corner: http://www.bbscorner.com/usersinfo/bbshistory.htm
Butterworth, M. (2010, June 29). The Fifth Wave of Computing Retrieved March 20, 2017, from Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/2010/06/29/computing-technology-internet-media-opinions-columnists-trevor-butterworth.html
3-The fifth wave of technology innovation was also known as the cataclysmic expansion of information and as well as the communication technologies. The fifth wave innovation includes the evolutions of mobile phones into life devices through the use of 3G, GPS, cloud computing, and the so-called second generation barcoding. As stated by (Butterworth, 2010), fifth wave technology innovation is the time wherein the mobile internet has been massively ramping up. Technology is still innovating and revolutionizing as year's passes by and it definitely change people's lives, their daily activities, and their outlook on life. Additionally, technology especially the fifth wave technology have been affected the different kinds of business industries.
One of the very simple example from this is the newspaper industry, 10 years before, the industry of newspaper is increasing rapidly. However, when the technology and the internet improves, people used to read news through their laptop, computers, and now even in their tablets and phones. That is why many newspaper industries are now being bankrupt because of the fifth wave technology. But the innovation of technology have a lot of positive effects, in fact, the fifth wave technology has a lot of advantages both to different kinds of business industries and to the community. Even in terms of transportation, there are specific cumulative waves of transport development. The fifth wave in transport systems are the airports and the containerships. During the late 1950's, jet services have been introduced because of this innovation, global mobility systems advance wherein different kinds of locations can be accessible within hours. (Rodrigue, et al, 2013). As of now, through the help of the fifth wave technology innovation, there are several airport terminals around the world wherein people were able to reach destinations in the fastest way. On the other hand, containership which is part of the maritime mode of transportation is also evolving. Nowadays, bulk shipping becomes one of the fastest ways why our global commercial relations has been innovating and improving. The trade and freight transportation is now a global distribution system with the help of the fifth wave technology innovation of transportation modes.
In my own opinion, the timeframe of the fifth wave which is 1990-2020 is appropriate based on the changes happened for over 20 years. As we all know, new methods of communication such as social media and the invention of smartphones and other gadgets improve the way we communicate now. Other improvements in different industries have been already developed wherein through the use of the technology, business industries were able to work and move in the fastest way. And I think to start in the year 2020, we should expect more improvement, development, and innovation.
References
Butterworth T., (2010). The Fifth Wave of Computing. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/2010/06/29/computing-technology-internet-media-opinions-columnists-trevor-butterworth.html
Rodrigue J.P., Comtois C., & Slack B., (2013). The Geography of Transport Systems. Third Edition. London: Routledge.