Key turning points in Communication History
There are obviously many key turning points in communication history. To have evolved from typewriters and Morse code to E-mails and texting is a pretty far distance by itself let alone going all the way back to smoke signals and cave wall drawings! It’s interesting to look back at our own personal communication technology history and see how far we’ve come in such a short time. In my own short life I’ve used so many different mediums of communication technology and they’ve all tried their best to outdo and exceed their predecessors leaving me with the feeling of ‘How did I ever live without you?’
Nowadays I couldn’t live without my iPhone, but before now I have had four other iPod’s and I confess I was smitten with each and every one of them, thinking that this is as good as it can get and each time being wowed all over again. When it comes to the internet these days, what would we do without wireless and unlimited downloads while but a mere 5 years ago we were all listening to the dreadful sounds of dial-up and to access it on your phone was unthinkable.
Also to be mentioned is that of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube whose success seems to have boomed overnight. Last year the bar across the bottom on the news broadcast gave details about the current affairs, now they display the Twitter accounts of weatherman and sports commentators. I’m not saying that’s it’s a bad thing, just that (like all communicational upgrades) feels like too much too soon. But we’ll get used to it, just in time for it to change again.
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