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How Technology Effects Communication in Society. Ryan-Lynn Smentkowski. Technology Thro ughout the Ages. 1960’s- 1980’s 1977- Fiber-optic telephone cables are installed. 1983- MCI places order for 90,000 miles of fiber optic cable. 1900’s-1920’s 1900- Poulsen invents telegraphone
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How Technology Effects Communication in Society Ryan-Lynn Smentkowski
Technology Throughout the Ages • 1960’s- 1980’s • 1977- Fiber-optic telephone cables are installed. • 1983- MCI places order for 90,000 miles of fiber optic cable. • 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. • 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
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 • Cell Phone • a hand-heldmobileradiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver • Texting • Having a monotone conversation through messaging- not face to face • Twitter & Facebook • an organization regarded as part of a larger social group
Sources: • http://worldhistorysite.com/culttech.html • http://library.thinkquest.org/5729/ • http://www.tcf.ua.edu/AZ/ITHistoryOutline.htm