Communication Technologies: Have We Reached a Point of No Return?
Essay 1
Write an essay of 800-1000 words:
Technologies such as Facebook, YouTube, iPhone and Kindle are just a few examples of everyday applications, and new technologies are being developed rapidly. Have we reached a point where we cannot function without communication technologies?
We employ communication technologies in many different areas because of the advantages instant conversations provide. In this essay, I will argue that it is not plausible to function without communication technologies. Functioning is being able to maintain our present mode of living, the way we communicate, learn, earn a living, and prosper. It is not plausible to maintain each of these aspects, in their present form, without communicative technologies such as the telephone and the internet. We, as individuals in the western world, have integrated communication technologies into the way we function. We could remove telephones and the internet from our individual lives, but we would not function in the way we do presently. In this essay, I will provide evidence as to how each aspect of the way we currently function would decrease with the removal of telephones and the internet. As communicators we would lose the ability to connect over large distances, as students we would lose a valuable information source, and as prospering employees we would decrease our efficiency, losing jobs and our standard of living.
The primary use for communication technologies is simply communication. Communicating is essential to humans, being able to connect with people around us allows us to feel that we are part of something greater. Currently communicating can be having a physical conversation, making a phone call, sending a text message or email, using instant chat, or participating on social networking sites. Only one of these does not require a communicative technology. We use the internet and the phone to feel more connected than ever before. “The internet has become the routine appliance of a
Write an essay of 800-1000 words:
Technologies such as Facebook, YouTube, iPhone and Kindle are just a few examples of everyday applications, and new technologies are being developed rapidly. Have we reached a point where we cannot function without communication technologies?
We employ communication technologies in many different areas because of the advantages instant conversations provide. In this essay, I will argue that it is not plausible to function without communication technologies. Functioning is being able to maintain our present mode of living, the way we communicate, learn, earn a living, and prosper. It is not plausible to maintain each of these aspects, in their present form, without communicative technologies such as the telephone and the internet. We, as individuals in the western world, have integrated communication technologies into the way we function. We could remove telephones and the internet from our individual lives, but we would not function in the way we do presently. In this essay, I will provide evidence as to how each aspect of the way we currently function would decrease with the removal of telephones and the internet. As communicators we would lose the ability to connect over large distances, as students we would lose a valuable information source, and as prospering employees we would decrease our efficiency, losing jobs and our standard of living.
The primary use for communication technologies is simply communication. Communicating is essential to humans, being able to connect with people around us allows us to feel that we are part of something greater. Currently communicating can be having a physical conversation, making a phone call, sending a text message or email, using instant chat, or participating on social networking sites. Only one of these does not require a communicative technology. We use the internet and the phone to feel more connected than ever before. “The internet has become the routine appliance of a
References: Johnson, L, A. Levine, and R. S. Smith. 2009. One Year or Less: Cloud-Computing. In 2009 Horizon Report. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium. Sanchez, J. I. L, B. M. Rata, A. R. Duarte and F. D. Sandulli. 2006. Is the Internet productive? A firm- level analysis. Technovation July 26(7): 821-826. Science Direct. http://0- www.sciencedirect.com.prospero.murdoch.edu.au/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V8B- 4G0495M- 1&_user=917906&_coverDate=07%2F31%2F2006&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_o rigin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000047999&_version=1&_urlVersio n=0&_userid=917906&md5=77ba248efc906fbf3fd8559b52a5cfc0&searchtype=a (accessed 11 March 2011) Pressman, Steven. 2006. Fifty Major Economists. 2nd edition. Oxon: Routledge. http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:j8NcDxDgCH8J:scholar.google.com/+%22standard+of+living %22+author:J+author:M+author:Keynes&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 (accessed 10 March 2011) Wellman, Barry and Caroline Haythornthwaite. 2002. The internet in everyday life. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Agemw3yIfCIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_s ummary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false (accessed10/03/2011)