I chose the above video from YouTube merely by just typing the most obvious phrase into the search bar: 'New Communication Technologies'. I mean how much more related to the topic can you be? :) So I clicked the first video that came up, and upon watching it, I didn't really like it. haha So in the recommended videos to the right, I clicked on the then most eye-appealing video to there, and clicked away. The creator of this video is extremely creative, and had put much effort into making a stop-motion film which consists of cut-out paper versions of communication instruments over the ages. I shall give a breif list of the communication instruments shown in the video:
- Firstly, is the physical yelling as was restricted to that of the stone-age man (...according to the video. I would have also included smoke signalling).
- Then comes the letter. This was the main form of communication for centuries.
- Next is the morse code system. This was used in telegraphs and s.o.s' between sinking ships and the mainlands/other vessels.
- The type writer is then introduced. This was the first form of the computer, and a less-manual form of writing letters. Women generally were the most dominant users of this machine.
- Then comes the rotary dial telephone with their finger wheels. (However, the person who created this video neglected to mention the original telephone created by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.)
- Straight afterwards in the video comes the finger pad telephones.
- The mobile phone is introduced...in big-brick style.
- Then making a jump between the big-brick mobile phone with an antenna, the video creator jumped straight to an iPhone Touch. I believe there have been quite a FEW models in between. The Nokia brick phone been one of these, with additive COLOUR COVERS as technology advanced. Also the flip-phones and slide phones. Then (as I now have) came the mini-keyboard phones (eg. Nokia E71 that I have and the Blackberry etc.).
- The creator of the video then put up the icons of the current most popular social-networking internet sites out there; facebook, twitter, myspace and bebo.
- The next image is a laptop, which then evolves into an iPad, which the creator has cleverly typed (in cardboard letter stop-motion style of course) on the iPad, 'what's next?'
I think this video well summerises how communication technology has changed over the years.
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