Popular culture is a part of anyone’s life that is not currently living in a third world country. It is the fashion, the music, the technology, the apparatuses and the extracurriculars in which we all us to live our lives. I find it to be those things that the pre-baby-boomer generation usually finds “just silly”. But to many in their teens to their 50s and 60s, it is now the popular way to live life on a day to day basis. Most commonly these are considered necessities of life, though that is usually not the case. They are things to enhance our way of living. Things to make us more comfortable, or to make life easier and even to just make life a lot more fun!
In my world of accounting, the fast paced changes are my popular culture. Not being able to keep up with the technology and the always-new set of regulations is a definite disadvantage. To be unwillingly to adjust to the newest way of doing things or accepting the continuing education of the industry could cause one to fall behind the newest trends. In the future, I see myself staying on top of the newest classes and seminars to learn new accounting methods as well as how to integrate the accounting world with the business world. These two would seem to go hand and hand but this has not always been the case.
It only took me seconds to name my idea of a popular culture artifact. Google. According to www.google.com/corporate, the idea was launched in a Stanford University dorm room by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Even the least savvy internet user has most likely heard of the popular search engine. The phrase “Google it” has become quite common over the past decade. It seems as though it is the gateway to the internet. A website need not be known. A few short words usually gets one right where they need to be, however, if it doesn’t then there are probably a few thousand or million other choices from which to choose.
I use this popular culture artifact (icon in my book) on a daily basis. I search for shopping deals, party ideas, recipes, how-to’s, useless facts and, most importantly, things that help me stay up to date in the world of accounting. I use it for everything! I recommend it to all. I believe that Google will continue to be a pop culture artifact of our time because of its ease and simplicity. Now who could say that’s “just silly”?
References: www.google.com/corporate; Retrieved January 10, 2009.
In my world of accounting, the fast paced changes are my popular culture. Not being able to keep up with the technology and the always-new set of regulations is a definite disadvantage. To be unwillingly to adjust to the newest way of doing things or accepting the continuing education of the industry could cause one to fall behind the newest trends. In the future, I see myself staying on top of the newest classes and seminars to learn new accounting methods as well as how to integrate the accounting world with the business world. These two would seem to go hand and hand but this has not always been the case.
It only took me seconds to name my idea of a popular culture artifact. Google. According to www.google.com/corporate, the idea was launched in a Stanford University dorm room by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Even the least savvy internet user has most likely heard of the popular search engine. The phrase “Google it” has become quite common over the past decade. It seems as though it is the gateway to the internet. A website need not be known. A few short words usually gets one right where they need to be, however, if it doesn’t then there are probably a few thousand or million other choices from which to choose.
I use this popular culture artifact (icon in my book) on a daily basis. I search for shopping deals, party ideas, recipes, how-to’s, useless facts and, most importantly, things that help me stay up to date in the world of accounting. I use it for everything! I recommend it to all. I believe that Google will continue to be a pop culture artifact of our time because of its ease and simplicity. Now who could say that’s “just silly”?
References: www.google.com/corporate; Retrieved January 10, 2009.
You're right about Google. It has become a way of life and the "Google it" phrase has become mainstreamed into our vocabulary and has become the clarion call when we need info...on anything. I remember the days of blissful ignorance, and the immense challenge of facing up to the card index drawers at the public library, knowing in my heart that the needed article would not be part of the library's collection.
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