Wednesday, June 30, 2010

One way technology has change society.
Communication has always been a mover and shaker in societies. It is the rise and fall of many areas of life and death. If you head back 3000 years ago you had fast runners that would run between cities and who would deliver messages of wins or losses in battle. People would deliver news between towns of weddings and funerals. One Thousand years ago they had town criers who would tell the latest news of interesting items that was going on in surrounding areas. They would announce what the king or mayor would want everyone to hear. They also would sound alarms if an attack was coming or a nobleman was entering town. One hundred and thirty-four years ago Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the patent for the telephone. This was the wave of the future for communication. This was the town crier, the runner and more all into one machine.
Now that we have cell phones the modern way of communication things have changed immensely. Business is one or lost on abilities to sell on the phone. Your speech how it's perceived can cause joy or sadness. You can call 911 and let them know that you or your neighbor are being attacked. You find out about weddings or funerals immediately with pictures or text. Our daily lives are changed constantly as we don't have to go to a store to purchase items. With the invention of texting you can stay in contact with each other 24 hours a day.
The issues that come with this change is instead of just being able to know things faster or and increased knowledge of what is going on in people's live. We can now hear things and see things as they are happening or before they happen. I can tell everyone what I am going this weekend or where to be. I can send a picture or video of what I am doing. Sometime I can know to much about someone by what I read. People have used cellphones to send pictures to hurt people. Another problem is when using the phone or texting is okay. You are in a resteraunt and trying to have a converstion and the person next to you is having a conversation with someone that is n't there. You are in line at the grocery store and hearing about somone's private life. Kids today are texting while they talk to you. (they don't have to look at the keyboard)
Modern communication is great in many ways but someone need's to start standing up and saying in certain instances "No Cellphones Allowed In Here!"

1 comment:

  1. You are right about the fact that cell phones shouldn't be used everywhere!

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