If you really want to trace is back from the beginning, new communication technologies really began with the invention of the cell phone. "In 1973, Martin Cooper, a scientist working for Motorola successfully made the first ever cell phone call using a portable handset." This was merely the beginning. "By 1987 there were over one million cell phone users in the US alone." The creation of the cell phone expanded communication drastically. Now, people could talk to anyone at anytime regardless of where they were or where the person they wanted to reach was. We were given the chance to really connect with one another. Now there isn't usually a person you can find who doesn't own a cell phone. In fact, home phones are now things of the past as people find it pointless to pay for two seperate phone lines, when they are usually much easier to get ahold of on their cell phones.
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-History-Of-Cell-Phones---How-Did-The-Cell-Phone-Come-About?&id=215985
That's nuts! I have made a few posts about cellphones as well. It seems like my life revolves around my phone, when around 8 years ago my cell phone was "emergency use only". The inventions of cell phones I think has been incredibly beneficial. Its funny to think about how back in the day people would evade phone calls by saying "oh, sorry I wasn't home" and now the excuse is "oh sorry, I didn't get your call on my cell phone". I'm curious to see how much smarter phones can get from where we are now.
ReplyDeleteseriously I know, everytime I think we have hit a cap on these advanced phones, they come out with something else. I myself have the G1, which, when it came out was the number 1 new technology phone competing with the iPhone and now they have the mytouch, and the android and not to mention all the different iPhones. I just dont know how many more advancements can possibly be made on these cell phones.
ReplyDeleteThats pretty interesting. I am doing my blog on Smartphone and I can tell you how much technology is growing. Even from the iPhone 3Gs to the Iphone 4 the technology is rapidly expanding. The pictures are so much better, the video, the blazing fast internet. It seems like 3 years ago the first iPhone was a pain in the butt to download or even use Facebook. I want to know how much it will continue to improve. Its hard to think of how far it can really go.
ReplyDeleteI can't even imagine life without cellphones! How did we ever get a hold of each other before their existence?!?!?!
ReplyDelete@jayce That is what I am trying to figure out.. when will it stop? I feel like there are so many features one person needs in a phone and we are already far beyond that. I can't imagine an iPhone10 or something like that and how much differnt and "better" they can really get.
ReplyDelete@Jen! Seriously! My boyfriend just recently broke his phone and it is so weird to not be able to send him a text randomly or just pick up and call. I have to guess what time he'll get off and when I should head to his house and just show up and it is so complicated I can't imagine if no one had phones anymore. Especially for emergencies and stuff just overall I feel we as a culture need cell phones now I can't imagine living in a world where they didn't exist.
ReplyDeleteI agree, home phones are becoming obsolete. My family got rid of our phone line years ago. Since then my mom has opted for a skype number that acts as a phone line, but conventional phones are dying. We definitely do take cell phone technology for granted. I experience a phenomenon similar to breaking a phone when I went out of the country a couple months ago. International charges are murder, and there was no way I was going to use my phone unless it was a real emergency. It was weird not to have that umbilical cord as I'm so use to it being there.
ReplyDeleteRebecca Morse
http://morse-online.com/rlm/
I know, in one of my classes my teacher did a poll of the class to find out how many of us use land lines. In a class of over 100 students, not a single person. When he asked about our parents the hands did go up but it was still probably only a third of the class. I think with our generation land lines will be completely gone.
ReplyDelete