Computer Networking and Communication

A computer networking and data network is a telecommunication network that allows the computers on a network may be linked through cables, telephone lines, radio waves, satellites, or infrared light beams. This facilitates communication and resources sharing within huge amount of people in deferent location. Best known as Internet, is the computer network established using either cable media or wireless media. The only system been used before 19th century was postal system, and it would take several days depending distance between sender and the receiver. But now a day by the access of Internet you can communicate with people within seconds, and doesn’t matter where they live or the distance between sender and receiver. Back in days, American Military used Internet and communication first equipment’s to communicate with their soldiers far away in battlefield but now a day we can see over 70% of world population use these equipment. Country like Panama with a population of 3 million people has over 7 million just in cell phones. Does this represent an advance in technology or threat? “I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.” Said by Claude Elwood Shannon, father of digital communication. He created digital circuit using simple Boolean algebra. As Claude Shannon said now we see people more attached to their computer and cell phones. Studies have shown that with all the technologies that human have he is being less social. Back in days people used to travel and go different places to enjoy with their family. For example, in carnival week people used to go to the interior of the country and some of them would go to Brazil. But now a day, they prefer to stay at home and s...

... middle of paper ...

...th of eye disease and increase of body weight. But we all know never its too late, we can still change our life and how we use technology. After knowing all these consequences if we still don’t do anything, then a very famous line of Albert Einstein will be applied to our life and next generation “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”

Works Cited

http://globalclimatechange.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/einstein-on-bees/

http://simarwaraich.blogspot.com/2012/06/disadvantages-of-communication.html

http://communicationt.blogspot.com/2011/10/disadvantages-of-communication.html

http://mags2304.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/37/

http://www.slideshare.net/anantlodha/disadvantages-of-technology-in-communcation

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/claudeshan194087.html