Saturday, July 5, 2008

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES


The process of exchanging thoughts and information between human beings takes place through communication. Mainly there are two ways of communication. One is verbal communication and another one is nonverbal communication.

The first existed communication was nonverbal which could be seen from animals to human through signals and gestures which proceeded through symbols and verbal means.
The vital part in communication is this verbal communication. Several ways can be found in this verbal communication. Modern era improved the verbal communication through technology.

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
Further and further advancing technology can be seen now a day. Unanticipated numerous occasions mirror the importance of technology in our day to day life only. This can be viewed through the progress happened from the past.
1)Animals were used to send their messages from one place to another.
2)Telegraphic communication made the communication trouble-free.
3)Electronic recording and broadcasting made the further improvement. Radio technology was first developed to convey a signal to places where a fixed line, i.e. telegraphs, could not reach – such as for contacting ships at sea. But it was ham radio enthusiasts who developed the practice of using radio for social communication.
4)A revolution in telecommunications
has greatly altered communication by providing new media for long distance communication. This allows for intense long distance exchanges between huge numbers of people in a very easy way. Thomas Edison discovered hello as the ambiguous greeting by voice. This is a well known and much cited example of unexpected innovation.
5)One more gift from a creative man is computer. Computer is any programmable electronic mechanism that can collect, retrieve, and process information. This description has grown significantly over time as the computer has come a long way from the likes of a simple calculator, to a complex and intricate piece of machinery that has the ability to control our existence. This has given an ample of opportunity through Internet to collect various information and to transfer various thoughts to many minds. Similarly, the terseness of e-mail
and chat rooms produced the need for the emoticon.
6)Man cannot forget this mass media also. Mass is a term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience
(typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). Some of the mass medias or important tools which can be used for communication purpose are television, radio, newspaper etc.,
7)Pagers, Fax, PDA, Email, Digital Camera, Scanners many more things are used for the communication purpose.
Many improved stages are involved in the communication starting from cave paintings to computer. Man, being innovative might find some more technologies to communicate with large number of people. The hope is, these technologies will be helpful to people but not harmful.

Example: Airtel is the one of the leading mobile brand in India, which had charged incoming calls to its costumers, but because of the technology in communication, now Airtel introduced new plan that is Airtel has free incoming calls free and also lower the call rates also.


Experience: Indian post office was taking 3 days to delivery one post, that too which is same state. It was taking 5 to 6 day to delivery the post to other states. Now because of the improved technology in the communication I can post my massage through e-mail, or SMS etc. now transferring information is become so easy. We can sent information, photos, video to any part of the world with in just 1 min. that too free of cost.



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