Promote Innovation

One of the eight values I decided to key in on was Promote Innovation. I feel as though that this value is most important because, as a society it is very important for us to be able to express ourselves in any way possible. Free speech has not always been valued, and in other places in the world this is still an issue to this day. I get a sense that lately in our society, in the U.S. we do not take advantage of the free speech policy. We do not speak out enough about the injustices going on in our society and civilization. This could either be because for one, people are afraid to face the ridicule of their peers or just the community judging them as a whole. Not to make this such a bad thing, but there are great ways we as people use this power to our advantage. In the LGBTQ community, given the power of free expression and free speech, over the years there has been great changes in our society alone. A lot of things have advanced over the years, and as times continues to pass by the more advanced we become. I came across a video while doing a little more research regarding this subject, “Promoting Innovation”, the trend I am beginning to pick up on is that for anything to change or become better it must take the collective. In the video, I watched where Steven Johnson, a popular author and PBS television series host, how to promote innovation even across disciplines in our everyday work it just takes change, and the collection. Coming together makes things a lot simpler, being able to share ideas and thoughts, and discussing them really helps gets the ball rolling. He also mentions how it helps to cross those departmental boundaries, and what I think he means is that if we are to come together as one we can collectively go over the set standard. For change, it always takes more than one person to make it happen, I just wish more people understood that context, but many forget this simple principle. Hopefully in the future people will wake up and realize how much better things could turn out if the collective came together to make a change, instead of going against your neighbor and trying to fight everything on your own. Maybe later in the years this change will soon to come.  

Netflix

Netflix, Inc., media-streaming and video-rental company was founded in 1997 by American entrepreneurs Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. It is also involved in the creation of original programming. n 1999 Netflix began offering an online subscription service through the Internet. Subscribers chose movie and television titles from Netflix’s Web site; the shows were then mailed to customers in the form of DVDs, along with prepaid return envelopes, from one of more than 100 distribution centers. Although customers typically rented for a flat monthly fee as many movies per month as they wished, the number of DVDs in their possession at any one time was limited according to their subscription plans. Netflix had tens of thousands of movie titles in its catalog. In 2006 Netflix launched the $1 million Netflix Prize contest to see if anyone could improve by 10 percent its recommendation system, an algorithm for predicting an individual’s movie preferences based on previous rental data. Three years later the prize was awarded to BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos, a team made up of seven mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers from the United States, Canada, Austria, and Israel. In 2007 Netflix began offering subscribers the option to stream some of its movies and television shows directly to their homes through the Internet. For most subscription plans, the streaming service was unlimited. n September 2011 that it would split its streaming and mail-based services, with the latter to be called Qwikster, but abandoned the planned split a month later, citing an outcry from its subscribers. While its streaming services became the biggest revenue generator—with more than 130 million subscribers in 2018—the rental division remained profitable.

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