A couple of small points ....
whether by phone [physical connection] or in person [virtual connection].
Feels that way sometimes, but did you mean this the other way around?
Feedback: Feedback is a first-degree dynamic process that reduces the difference between the present state and a goal state to zero through an information loop. For positive [negative] feedback, the goal state is either fixed and positive [negative] or open-ended but directional, permitting continuing incremental advances [declines].
This is counter to my memory of feedback definitions in which negative feedback tends to bring a system toward the goal state, but positive feedback tends to de-stablize the system.
Adopter Categories: Based on a division of the normal curve, five ideal types were specified by Rogers [by Moore]: (a) Innovators [technology enthusiasts], (b) early adopters [visionaries], (c) early majority [pragmatists], (d) late majority [conservatives], and (e) laggards [skeptics].
I was glancing at a diagram of the TALC last night and, liking symmetry as I do, thinking that it was unfortunate that there were three categories on the leading side of the curve, but only two on the trailing side. Once could correct this by adding a category for the extreme right tail of the curve, the complement to innovators, which might be called the Luddites, those who won't adopt even long after every one else has given in and the mainstream is already on to following cycles. |
