The Effect of Electronics on Communication Electronics has played a major part in communication and the developments of it. The first ways of communication not by just talking were the uses of cans and a piece of string. This worked by the vibrations of the voice vibrating down the string and into the other person’s can. The next major development was the invention of telephones. The first telephones were large and ugly with large numbers and were difficult to hear, and the switchboards were done manually by women and children. The next part of communication was the internet. This was first brought into use by the armies who wanted to move data from one computer to the other without the use of disks etc. Next was the mobile computer, or the laptop. The first model of these has a small screen which was black and white and was very slow and also expensive. They were only really used by businessmen and rich people. Now they have changed and have large colour screens and are of comparison in speed to that of desktop computers. The next development was that of mobile phones. It was at first thought never to take off with the large models, which needed a long charge for not much talk time. This changed when the phones which looked good and were small were introduced. Also the idea of text messaging took off with many people using it. Recent developments in electronics in communication have been that of smartphones which have tried to incorporate a phone, a camera, a video recorder, a planner, a games console and a computer all into one. These are good in theory but normally when all these features are packed into a phone, the phone i... ... middle of paper ... ... The negative part of programs such as KaZaA and eDonkey is that they are being used to transfer files such as music, films and software costing the companies that produce the media millions. Broadband is also helping the file sharers as with standard 512k/s broadband they can download nearly 10 times as much data as a 56k/s dial-up connection. Also the compression codecs for movies and music means that they can be made a lot smaller with the same high quality being preserved. However some record companies have been releasing “fake” music files into the sharing domain. Normally these are 30 seconds of the song, which then fade into nothing for the rest of the song. Other companies, for one Madonna’s have released her swearing and screaming about how she hates file sharers and how they are costing the industry millions.
With the increase of technology, it gives rise to innovations beyond belief. One of the most important innovations of our time is the cell phones. Today, people can now use what would be considered as a computer during the 1900s, in the palm of our hands. The accessibility of the cell phone has instantly changed our way of life.
Digital communication has evolved in such a rapid time. Some say that it is bad, others say it is good, and other say it can be good and bad. In Gerald Graff’s and Cathy Birkenstein’s book, They Say/I say, they have a chapter that talks about digital communication. They talk about the pros and cons on it as well. Digital communication is destroying young user’s ability to communicate but it also is helping spread viral memes quickly, and bringing people together.
...he invention of the Internet, and cell phones being made with new features of communication. Although some of the new methods of communication have taken a toll on some of the people who use these new ways of communication. Communication has come a long way to get where it is today, but as everyday passes, technology will become more and more advanced.
The Telephone System The telephone is one of the most creative and prized inventions in the world. It has advanced from its humble beginnings to its wireless communication technology today and for the future. The inhabitants of the earth have long communicated over a distance, which has been done by shouting from one hilltop or tower to another. The word "telephone" originated from a combination of two Greek words: "tele", meaning far off, and "phone", meaning voice or sound, and became the known term for "far- speaking." A basic telephone usually contains a transmitter, that transfers the caller's voice, and a receiver, that amplifies sound from an In the transmitter there are two common kinds of transmitters: the carbon transmitter, and the electric transmitter.
People started to see the significance of the telephone and what it can accomplish. Now with the help of the telephone, individuals communicated in a much quicker fashion. Once this became evident, it greatly enhanced the use of the telephone. After further development of the telephone, society recognized its ability to allow one to contact another person at any time any place with confidence that the call would be completed. The less time it took to communicate was a big draw for society because messages could be sent instantly. This invention allowed for such...
Firstly, it is true that new technologies are always great for human 's living simply and easy. However, technology does not necessarily make life simpler. On the other hand, it tends our life to be more complicated. Nowadays, our society informed that nearly everyone agreed that cell phone is the most wonderful power of technology to make our life 's better and worth. The truth is the new kind of communication has been produced by the telephone since it invented. Clearly, it was simple and crude invention when the cell phone was being created, it just speeds little bit time to know how to use it which is quick and fast. People just use cell phones to calling and texting, it just needs to speed a couple of consequences. However, the Cell phone has lots of changed after several years, it 's becoming complicated functions machine. People have to learn a lot of things to know how to use new kind of cell phone which it 's complex. Today, it 's difficult job of people to find a cell phone that just have the function of texting, receive notes and call t...
Cell phones have immensely changed the way people communicate today. A cell phone can be all a person need for interaction. From a cell phone, a person can make calls, send text messages, emails, and send and also receive directions, buy things online, do online banking, listen to music and much more. Since someone can do everything with one device, there is no longer a need to go around with multiple devices about. Greek hydraulic semaphore systems were used as early as the 4th century. The hydraulic semaphores, which functioned with water filled containers and visual signals, functioned as optical telegraphs. However, they could only apply a very limited range of pre-determined messages, and as with all such visual telegraphs could only be deployed during good visibility conditions. Experiments on communication using electricity was carried out in 1729 but was not successful. The experiment was proposed by William Fothergill Cooke. In 1837, William invented a practical electric telegraph which entered commercial use in 1838 (J. B. Calvert, May 2004). The first telephone was invented in 1878 by Alexander Graham Bell. He experimented with a ‘phonautograph’, it is a machine shaped like a pen that can draw shapes of sound waves on smoked glass by tracing vibrations.
On March 10th, 1876, a revolutionary invention was created by Alexander Graham Bell. The telephone was invented to send vibrations from one receiver to another electrically (History.com ‘Speech Transmitted by Telephone’ accessed on March 11, 2014), and due to Alexander Graham Bell accidentally discovering that he could hear the sound of a ‘clock spring twanging’ (Marry Bellis, ‘The History of the Telephone’ accessed on March 11, 2014), that was possible. The invention of the telephone permitted new levels of communication, allowed families connect around the world, and improved military systems, but also served negative consequences, such as breached privacy. If two people wanted to have a conversation, they would have to write letters back and forth, but with the telephone they were able to pick up the receiver, dial the number, and be connected in a matter of minutes. Telephones enabled long-distance communication, which allowed families to converse despite their location. Military officials and soldiers were also able to stay in touch through field telephones as well as keep contact with the president. Although telephones were originally placed in general stores or other major city locations and homes/neighborhoods that were wired (Elon.edu ‘World Changes Due to the Telephone’ accessed on April 2, 2014), telephones became commonly used in homes in the early twentieth century when telephones began to connect internationally.
Telephone lines and radio signals allowed individuals to communicate across the world. Alexander Gram Bell was the first to invent the telephone. While coming to the US to become a teacher for the death he thought of the idea of “electronic speech”. “This led him to invent the microphone and later the "electrical speech machine" his name for the first telephone,” stated www.pbs.org. Many contributed to the invention to the electric phone with the idea of the acoustic string phone, known as the lover’s phone. The tin can telephone had two tin cans tied together to with a string and wire. People today make this as a joke to talk to one another and kids also make the tin can phones as a toy. This illustrates that social media has always been around and even though it is a joke to today’s society this is how people used to have social interactions with one another before the Internet took
Despite the short amount of time since the introduction of the smartphone, the rapid development of the software and technology has had a tremendous effect on the everyday life of society today. The concept of communicating through a telephone was developed in the 1870s. Devices to transmit speech electrically were designed by Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell, but Bell's design was patented first. On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell achieved one of his greatest successes in the making of the telephone. This brought upon a major change in communication and gave leeway to the improvement of the telephone in the days to come (Bellis, 2013b).
At the dawn of the information age, to be young, as Wordsworth said in another context, is very heaven. Getting to know what goes inside computers, the engines of the Information Technology revolution, and knowing how to work with them enables one to understand the technology that makes it all possible. Understanding this, I chose to do my undergraduate study in Electronics and Communications engineering.
“We barely have time to pause and reflect these days on how far communicating through technology has progressed. Without even taking a deep breath, we’ve transitioned from email to chat to blogs to social networks and more recently to twitter” (Alan 2007). Communicating with technology has changed in many different ways. We usually “get in touch” with people through technology rather than speaking with them face to face. The most popular way people discuss things, with another individual, is through our phones. Phones have been around way before I was born in 1996, but throughout the years, they have developed a phone called a “smart phone”. The smart phone has all kinds of new things that we can use to socialize with our peers. On these new phones, we can connect with our friends or family on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Technology has also developed Skype, a place you can talk with people on the computer with instant voice and video for hours. The new communication changes have changed drastically from the new advances made in technology through our smart phones, social networking sites, and Skype.
...P, 2005, p 23) Around 2005 cell phones and PDAs were referred to as Swiss army knives of gadgets due to the fact they had many functions in one device. All the big phone companies at the time were premiering phones with more mp3 storage than mp3 player, essentially foreshadowing the future. (Dempsey, P, 2005, pg. 23)An average smart phone in the year 2014 can hold around 8-16 gigabytes of data, and if storage is allotted correctly, the phone can hold thousands of mp3s. Any mp3 player trying to have a foothold in the consumer market cannot compete with a device that is an essential part of an average person’s daily life, and a music player. “Smartphones with increasingly high-quality audio and video capabilities have become popular and therefore hamper demand for products in the Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing industry.” (Krabeepetcharat, T. 2013. p. 8)
Technology has gone from colorless block televisions and giant computer to computers you could fit on your fingertip and televisions that are flat and 3 Dimensional. Now they even are making holograms and televisions that go into an even better quality of graphics. There are thousands
People in the present society have turned from the use of the old means of communication to the more advanced and technological ways of communicating. Technology has made it easier for people to communicate in a faster, efficient, and cost saving means through the introduction of the communication channels. The world has turned out to be the centre for technology with different technologies emerging daily as the people continue to develop from time to time to cope with the growing technology. The benefits of adopting the communication technology are explained in this article which shows why people do not function without technology.