Since before time, mankind has been trying to improve and better his world around him. It began with the wheel--allowing people get from place to place and communicate. Over the years we still use the wheel but it has improved and evolved, just like technology. Everything we do in one way or another, revolves around technology.
For centuries people communicated in large groups, as in town hall meetings and concert halls without microphones-just the human voice, albeit sometimes elevated to extrodinary volumes (Vivian 23). Beginning with Joannes Gutenberg and printing technology in 1440, reading our news began a frenzy in improving our media spread. It evolved to chemistry technology with pictures and movies, to electricity where people were now able to hear and see the news. New technologies keep coming around making our media craving easier to satisfy. Ipods, Ipads, laptops, Facebook, Twitter, text messaging are just a few ways that people today stay connected. I don't doubt that in 10 years new technologies will come around once again and improve our media abilities.
Whether we realize it or not, media takes up two-thirds of our waking hours. Everything we do revolves around technology. We already have our cell phones with us just incase we get a text message or phone call. Our Ipods now let us access the internet whenever we please and Facebook and Twitter keep us posted on what people are doing or plan to do. In the future I believe our technology dependence will be more than it is today.
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