ENC 1102
Prof. Peter Monck
Summer 2013
Technology and Communication
Today’s world technology has changed a lot. Technology especially has changed our way to communicate; 70 years ago we just had telegrams and phones only. Nowadays we use our cellphone to chat, message, and others. In the past decade technology has widespread communication into a form of been in touch with the lovers. Advances in communication have created a blast in the way we communicate with others by fax, emails, cellphones, text, and Social Medias. The benefits of this are that companies are saving money. The way their saving money is that they don’t need to send their employees to other country just to agree or disagree in there meeting. Now we create video conference it save times and money. In addition, it give you an interaction with them by video is like been in there conference room without taking airplane and leave your family for work.
According to Acevedo (2013) “integrating technology into the workplace offers productivity enhancements essential to remaining competitive. For small businesses, technology can replace extra employee expenses, minimize geographic differences and help project a professional image. Increased technology may require employee training to ensure new technology devices are used correctly and integrated seamlessly into daily business processes”. Other benefit is that people that can’t afford to fly to see their family, now they could communicate by all this services that technology offers. Therefore, technology has come to save money and to help people that can’t afford to see their family. Another ways is that technology has created much different way to reach someone. If the cellphone dies we still use computers faxes, cards and others that the benefits of technology. The downside technology has depended a lot in technology and has cause people to become lazy. For example, they slightly are in screen rather than