Digital Media Design Technologies

What impact has the development of Digital Media Design Technologies had on society over the past ten years?

Theres a large amount of things that have changed in the last 10 years in the realm of Digital Media Design Technologies in '97 things such as:

• Desktop Computing
• The internet
• Windows type interface as opposed to command line.

As well as this Email was growing as were the World Wide Web, Web sites and Multiplayer Gaming.

In 1997 under 10 million people owned mobile phones, there are over 60 million have one. Thats a massive increase. Since 1997 email has become widespread as has text messaging, bandwidth has been increased, increasing the amount of images found on the internet, as well as music availiable to download. Search engines are widely used mainly google and a large majority of western populations own computers and have access to the internet More recently social networking sites such as facebook and myspace have become incredibly popular and google have released online software, such as an online spreadsheet and google maps and google earth.
I've only touched on a few of many things that have changed the pats 10 years.