Ever since the beginning we have had the need to send and receive communinication through all of our senses. Talk through our mouth listen through our ears see through our eyes and show gestures through our body actions. But as society progressed and expanded these natural tools of communication were not enough to convey a message so we adapted to that by coming up with tools to help expand our ideas to a far and wide audience by coming out with the written word(which later evolved into the typed word after the invention of Guttenberg’s press). Later on we needed to expand our voice over a larger area….to people half way across the globe. So the radio was invented to enhance the speaker’s voice. But then these were only one way communications. The sender needed a feed back immediately, so people started to use the telephone in order to enhance their voice and hearing.
Sometime audio just isn’t enough to convey a message and the press did not have such an immediate reach as the radio did; the sender needed to use audio and visual to convey his/her message. So, the TV was invented and once people saw the power of TV and how it could enhance their vision to see some one else in a far of land in a different time, they got addicted hook, line and sinker.
After TV had a good reign over the public for over half a century, there came another media which gave us wings…no not wings but tentacles. Tentacles, of an unlimited kind (so we could have a tentacle in each pie). Yes I’m talking about the internet. When I’m gaming online I can be who ever I want to be, I can live out my dream of being a warlock or I can rule the world…all on my tiny computer screen. Anyone can have that wonderful feeling of power just by being a moderator on an Orkut community. This friend of mine once told me that he does not have a TV at home and he doesn’t even get any news papers. So I told him, “man you’re totally cut of from the rest of the world”. He replied by saying, “I have internet at home so I’m connected to the parts of the world choose to be connected to not just those narrow bits of the world that your newspaper editor/TV channel connects you to but the whole world who wishes to be on the net. You see, there’s no middle man involved here!”
Then after the internet we as a species stepped into the wireless age; we have all (more or less) become telepathic. Any time I want I just have to take out this tiny device from my pocket and enhance my voice and hearing to interact with any of my friends. Basically the cell phone is the ultimate extension of our senses. We have become so dependent on this tiny but major extension of our ears and mouth that our world would come crashing down without it. We have now become slaves to our cell phones we depend on it to know about our lectures, we depend on it to co-ordinate between each other while working on a group project. Cell phones have become such an important form of communication that if the networks are down then so are we. People are as good as deaf mutes if there cell phones are not working.
Sometime audio just isn’t enough to convey a message and the press did not have such an immediate reach as the radio did; the sender needed to use audio and visual to convey his/her message. So, the TV was invented and once people saw the power of TV and how it could enhance their vision to see some one else in a far of land in a different time, they got addicted hook, line and sinker.
After TV had a good reign over the public for over half a century, there came another media which gave us wings…no not wings but tentacles. Tentacles, of an unlimited kind (so we could have a tentacle in each pie). Yes I’m talking about the internet. When I’m gaming online I can be who ever I want to be, I can live out my dream of being a warlock or I can rule the world…all on my tiny computer screen. Anyone can have that wonderful feeling of power just by being a moderator on an Orkut community. This friend of mine once told me that he does not have a TV at home and he doesn’t even get any news papers. So I told him, “man you’re totally cut of from the rest of the world”. He replied by saying, “I have internet at home so I’m connected to the parts of the world choose to be connected to not just those narrow bits of the world that your newspaper editor/TV channel connects you to but the whole world who wishes to be on the net. You see, there’s no middle man involved here!”
Then after the internet we as a species stepped into the wireless age; we have all (more or less) become telepathic. Any time I want I just have to take out this tiny device from my pocket and enhance my voice and hearing to interact with any of my friends. Basically the cell phone is the ultimate extension of our senses. We have become so dependent on this tiny but major extension of our ears and mouth that our world would come crashing down without it. We have now become slaves to our cell phones we depend on it to know about our lectures, we depend on it to co-ordinate between each other while working on a group project. Cell phones have become such an important form of communication that if the networks are down then so are we. People are as good as deaf mutes if there cell phones are not working.
