Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?

Did the design of the technology or the development of the medium come first?

I think that the primary step is coming up with an end goal for the project. Once the idea for that goal is established, it is necessary to build the technology around the needs of the end goal. In many cases, the end goal represents a change or development in the medium.

Inevitably, the meta-medium will eventually become outdated to the modern technology. However, I think that the meta-medium can grow as a part of technology to become 'caught up' to the modernity of society. For example, the aspect of video viewing has now begun to change to high definition quality. At the same time, the hardware, like television and DVD players have been built with the capabilities to read and play the newer style video. Once the goal of high definition was established, the technology was built to host it, that thus the new medium was created with a compatible outlet.