Radio.

We are taught in school that inventors are the innovators within our society. They think of things that make people’s lives a little easier. The problem nowadays is that everything seems to have already been invented. We have light bulbs, cooking stoves, and pretty much everything we might need to survive in an urbanized city. There are the occasional hot holiday items that everyone desperately needs, even if they really are just a blankets with sleeves. There are multiple factors that can affect a product’s success, and the radio is no different. Technological change was the driving force behind the innovations that shaped the radio industry because it initiated the mass production of radio.

Technological change is merely the innovation and creation of new technologies. Companies and scientists are constantly in competition with other companies in the same market. This forces them to try and develop technologies that are distinguishable from the competition in order to stay relevant. This may lead to the creation of new technologies that are in the same market. For instance, many companies are now introducing televisions with integrated 3-Dimensional capabilities. This is an extension of a market but has never been implemented before, and it could have never been achieved without the proper technological advancements in television technology.

Modern day radio was also an extension of a previously created technology. It was originally created to carry messages in Morse code over radio waves, and it was eventually developed to carry sound in the early 20^th century. These advancements made it possible for companies in the United States to take notice of the potential in commercial radio and were the basis for mass market production. After World War I, stores and companies began to sell radios to the general public in order to take advantage of daily broadcasts. This initiated the exposure of the new medium and was successful because more uses were being discovered for the newly broadened technology. Technological change was the main force behind the radio industry because without it mass broadcasting would have never spurred the investment in mass production of radio.