Communications_Technology

Communications Technology Communication/ Media Technology This essay will be based on the life and works of some of the more noted innovators in the field of communication and media technology and will include a discussion around how technological advancement may have a detrimental effect on the lives of individuals and society as a whole. Early Methods ¡¥Communication¡¦ is the act of transmitting and receiving ideas, messages and information. When considering communication between two people it could be described as a by-product or outgrowth of various different methods of self expression that have developed over thousands of years: Gestures accompanied by sounds could have been the beginnings of language. Smoke signals as used by Native Americans, cave paintings and engravings from the Palaeolithic period dating as far back as 10,000 ¡V 40,000 BC are all forms of expression and are efforts to communicate thoughts and ideas. Long before the telephone was developed and became universally available and before the invention of the electric telegraph, communicating over any significant distance would undoubtedly have been protracted and frustrating with letter mail being among the most popular and relied upon method of communication. Semaphore It seems that ¡¥fast¡¦ long distance technology began during the French revolution, in the late eighteenth century, when communication, technology, first, television, marconi, telegraph, morse, wireless, transmission, telephone, system, inventor, code, computer, company, over, invented, bell, been, radio, one, electronic, electric, before, waves, using, upon, telegraphy, speech, new, long, distance, developed, circuit, born