Wednesday, February 4, 2009

New Comm. Tech. Blog Post One

As communication technologies become widely available to the masses the immediate effect is a shrinking of perceived distances on the planet.

One hundred years ago telephones were first becoming popular and common. Even then though, a call could not be made from Whitewater, WI and connected with someone in Tokyo. For long range messages, the telegraph was still the predominant message transmitter.

Over the years telephones became cheaper and millions more lines of cable were laid to connect all the telephones on the planet.

Now we can go one step further. Not only can we call anyone on the planet we'd like, we can also see them on the computer with the use of webcams. Businesses men and women no longer need to fly to meetings with clients, they need only connect to the internet and turn on their web cam.

It'll be interesting to see where new communication technologies take us in the future. Perhaps live hologram images are next?

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