What are the media: Think about in terms of the way we describe the technology we are in

Conduit or container (textual analysis, languages through history and how we need to gain the literacy in them(affordances), environments (medium analysis)

As we can see on this graphic shows the relation of Technological expectations in relation to Time. What does this mean? Well the graph tells us that 3D printing was at the hight of expectations, then over time the “trough of disillusionment” came followed by the Plataeu of Productivity. It would be interesting to see the current ‘Hype Cycle’ of 2016