20 ways how Technology has changed the world.

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Electronic Communication

There were many great inventions and innovations that changed the world but nothing changed the world as much until electricity was brought into the mix.  With electricity the development of the phone, television, and the Internet were possible.  The telephone reinvented oral communication.  The printing press allowed a new form of formal communication.  With the invention of the telephone allowed informal communication to occur over long distances.  The telephone became a device that is used in business and in homes around the world.  Almost everyone in the world today owns a cell phone.  The development of the telephone led to the invention of the computer and eventually the Internet.  The Internet is the newest form of communication technology and is still being developed and modified today.  When the Internet was first created only a few people were able to access it but 10 years later million of people are surfing the web everyday.  On todays web, almost anything can be done.   A person can search information about something half way around world.  This is a period in time that information is only a small click away.  Not only is information so easy to achieve, but almost any one can post there beliefs.  The internet has become a medium for people to voice there opinions no matter what they are.  It has created for everyone to have a voice.  The Internet and all that comes with it have made the world smaller then it has ever been before.  People in the United States can now interact and show ideas with each other with the click of a button.

The Printing Press

When the printing press was invented there was a dramatic shift from painstaking hours of making documents by hand to a print technology.  This allowed large numbers of copies of written work to be created quickly, giving greater access to information and ideas to spread rapidly.  The printing press gave writing a consistent look and feel.  Before the invention of the printing press people would hand write the text, which would lead to discrepancies in writing, grammar, and facts.  The printing press had the biggest effect on the world through religion.  Before the Printing press, only a few copies of the bible existed. Printing not only made books, especially the Bible, affordable for people but it helped spread the ability to read for the people by giving them something to read.  The alliance of religion, literacy, and printing led to increased religious knowledge and understanding among church-goers

If I had to compare this new development to another invention changed the era of communication, it would be the development of the Internet.  Both revolutionized the world at the time and brought about a new about a new era of not only receiving new information but the ability of anyone to share there ideas. 
http://religion-today.blogspot.com/2007/10/technology-and-christianity.html

The Age of Writing

After the time period of symbols and cave drawings came the age of oral communication.  Communication by word of mouth was the only way to speed news.  With the development of oral cultures came the development of humans and great civilizations.  Great civilizations that were starting in the age of oral communication truly came forth with the development of writing.  The earliest form of writing can be seen 5000 years ago and completely revolutionized the world.  The development of writing changed not only the vehicle of communication but the message as well. The message was now created by carefully selected words allowing for the message to be looked over multiple times.  Writing language eliminated the need to rely on memory because now you can simply reread.  Unlike speaking, writing is not reliant at being somewhere at the same time place to revive the message.  It can be years later and the ideals of a texts can still be understood, while years later the ideals of a message handed down orally can dramatically change.
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How Communication first started

The beginning of creating ways to communicate with other occurred much earlier then most people think.  Before language and verbal communication was even around there was another way.  There is strong evidence of cave paintings that were used to commutate with others.  This makes perfect sense that even in today’s age many children learn how to draw before they can talk.  This was the beginning of a long line of communication advances.  These paintings were the first form of symbols.  When communication is broken down it can be traced back to the use of symbols.  Symbols are used always in language, texts, and in creating todays communication technology.  Symbols were first bricks of communication.  After cave paintings came pictograms.  Pictograms are simply symbols that represent a overall concept.  Civilizations like the Egyptians used these to communicate but mostly to tell stories that could be passed on from generation to generation.  If you fast forward time, we can see that in modern day we use symbols in our communication technology in the forms of letters to make words.  Without these symbols we would not have a language today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_communication

Types of Communications Then and Now

It is safe to say that the way we communicate now is very different then it was a 100 years ago.  As years have gone by we have advanced in the way we can shares idea, news and simply talk to one another.  At one point in history the only way to communicate was by word of mouth.  

From this point letters and written documents began to become the main to spread ideas and news over long distances.  From there it was the start of the development on how to make communication faster.  As people began to travel and discover new portions of the world, a new way of communicate was needed to shorter the distance between countries ad even continents.  The expansion of the world forced the ideas of telegraphs, telephones, mobile phones and the Internet.