How Technology Effects Communication in Society

Ryan-Lynn Smentkowski

Technology Throughout the Ages• 1900’s-1920’s

– 1900- Poulsen invents telegraphone

– 1911- Monroe invents a comptometer calculator to multiply and divide

– 1911- Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (later IBM) is incorporated after Hollerith sells his company.

• 1930’s-1950’s– 1934- Robert Watson-Watt invents

radar device. – 1946- Electronic Numerical

Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC) computer is built.

– 1948- Von Neumann develops computer memory system.

• 1960’s- 1980’s– 1977- Fiber-optic telephone

cables are installed.– 1983- MCI places order for

90,000 miles of fiber optic cable.

• 1990’s-2000’s– 1997- Camera phone is invented– 2000 - Computer glitch, Y2K,

expected with new millennium.– 2000 - Google begins selling

advertisements based on search words.

2000’s- Present

• 2001- Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, is launched

• 2003- MySpace is created by eUniverse employees; sold to News Corporation in 2005 for $580 million

• 2005- Youtube is launched; sold to Google a year later for $1.65 billion

How Communication Technologies had an Impact

on:• Education– SMART boards– Projectors – Laptops– Blogs

How Communication Technologies had an Impact

on:• Business– Advertisement– Skype- (Video conferences)–Websites– Security Systems

How I Use Technology to Communicate

• Text messaging/cellphone

• E-mail • Facebook

• Cell Phone– a hand-held mobile

radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

• E-mail– a system of world-wide

electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in

• Texting– Having a monotone

conversation through messaging- not face to face

• Twitter & Facebook– an organization

regarded as part of a larger social group

What Will the Future Hold?

Sources:

• http://worldhistorysite.com/culttech.html• http://library.thinkquest.org/5729/• http://www.tcf.ua.edu/AZ/ITHistoryOutline.

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