Media histories: Expectations and new inventions

My grandmother for instance learned to type on a type writer, so she got acquainted to the protocol related to the typewriter. And even if one would think emails are similar, she just finds it very difficult to use the internet to write emails.

We, well that would be people growing up with computers, tape and video recorder, we have framework of reference for technology that can be used with what we know and so we also expect technology to work with what we know. I do not really want to learn a complete new set of rules just because I want to use a new device. Therefore in theory I would have to bit by bit go along with what is developed. However, it could be possible that at one point I might be thrown out of that circle and suddenly I would feel like I would have to learn something completely different in order to use a new medium. So in that case my expectations could stop me from using inventions. Furthermore expectations really define or limit how far scientist can go in terms of inventions, if they want them to be used.