Keeping abreast of the latest technology can help you find new avenues to disseminate your brand and increase your exposure. Failure to do so can cause serious loss, or in extreme cases, an outright closure of the business. For example, one of the reasons why the Radio Corporation of America folded in the 1980s was its failure to keep abreast of the growing optical storage technology by focusing on its capacitance electronic disc, an analog disc format that can only be read by their own television brand that uses a needle to read data, like a phonograph. Laserdisc and videocasette systems rendered the format obsolete, leading to RCA being sold later.