Friday, January 22, 2016

-Communication Revolution

Over the years it is very simple to see that many parts of the world have in fact been going through a "Communications Revolution."  The definition of what this revolution is can be simply derived from its name.  This is a revolution consisting of how humans interact.  Every form of communication has been enhanced from where it started and will continue to be enhanced while some forms are being invited.  I remember when my grandmother had a phone in the floorboard of her vehicle and it even had a cord on it, yet now she has the latest generation iPhone that can fit in some of the smallest compartments for portability compared to the old system she once used.  I remember when I was young and didn't have much understanding of the internet.  All I knew was mom could type something in and it would appear on a screen as I always enjoyed looking at pictures of aircrafts, pets, boats, etc.  Advance a few years and now we have social media.  I think we all remember customizing our MySpace pages with lava lamps and backgrounds.  As I said everything is advancing everyday and so did social media.  Now we have Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, etc. while MySpace and even Facebook are becoming somewhat a thing of the past.  The form of communication will ever be improving at this point.  We use to use pen and paper to write a letter, now we just email.  We use to use fax machines, but now we just attach it as a pdf document to an email.  Our computers started out as machines that took up whole rooms, yet one can now hold a much more sophisticated machine or computer in the palm of their hand.  After all most everyones if not everyones cell phones contain more technology than what we used when the United States sent the first man to the moon. One can only imagine which form of communication will be invited next.

All of this started and was largely made available by the World Wide Web.  Although many take it for granted and don't give it much thought some describe the web as a platform of which everything is based.  This platform acts somewhat like a universe as a universe contains everything in it with different planets existing inside of it.  The Web is a platform or universe per-say that hosts many different websites for many different things to exist upon.  The Web is something that many can access and carry about business upon, go shopping, communicate, learn, entertain, or even use as a link to personal belongings with.  Web 2.0 is simply an improvement along the way of how people think if anything.  With changing times improvements have been made to whats on the web from everything to somethings name, its efficiency, or even complete redesigns of stuff in its entirety.  The transformation from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 was a miniature revolution in itself and I as far as I can see its far from being the last of the Web revolutions.

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