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Communication Technologies and World History (Summary Page) (communication) |
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Communication
technologies create a structure within which human
cultures are expressed. The mode of communication influences the type
of expression taking place in the "space" that it has created.
Most of life's significant events occur in physical encounters between human beings through the medium of speech. In civilized societies, the communication technologies set the stage for other kinds of experience. Ideographic writing created and preserved a certain kind of experience. So did alphabetic writing, printing, radio and television broadcasting, and communication via the Internet. Communication technology allows a communicator who may be physically separated from the audience to communicate with a potentially unlimited number of persons. Plato, dead for twenty-three hundred years, is still able to share his thoughts with humanity through written language. His words, translated from the Greek, can be read on a printed page. Millions of people around the earth can participate in that communicative experience. We discuss this aspect of world history in two ways:
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You may also be interested in two reports on communication technology:
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Click here for: A Typeface for the 20th Century (774 words) www.helvetica.html - 5 foreign languages Click here for: Growth of Traffic on the Internet (258 words) www.internettraffic.html - 5 foreign languages Click here for: The First Computer Virus (907 words) www.virus.html - 5 foreign languages Click here for: How the camera phone was created (245 words) www.cameraphone.html - 5 foreign languages Click here for: The Origin of YouTube (701 words) www.YouTube.html - 5 foreign languages Click here for: Viral Communication (1406 words) www.viral.html - 10 foreign languages For insights into a world of multiple electronic devices that are operated simultaneously, check this account of the "43-Hour Day". (729 words) www.multitasking.html - 5 foreign languages |
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