Thursday, August 5, 2010

Old and New Communication Technology

How do we distinguish between old and new communication technologies? Under what circumstances will new communication technologies become old communication technologies?

Today, new communication technology is constantly upgrading, evolving and re-inventing itself, it is actually hard to keep up with the latest versions of phones and computers. I remember when i was a little girl and my dad got his first mobile phone, it was a Motorola and an absolute brick, it was big and heavy and awkward but at the time pretty impressive. When i think of all the phones we have had since then over the last fifteen years I could have never imagined the transformations that have occurred. From my dads Motorola brick to the iphone that i now own, its hard to keep up with the new versions they continue to bring out. I guess as soon as the new version of a product comes out, the previous version becomes an old communication technology. In todays society it seems like it has become an addiction for us to have the latest technology in order to stay connected and communicate with each other, although some might say that it now seems we are communicating more with our computers and phones than with each other.




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