This document traces the evolution of communication technologies over many years, from primitive tools like sticks used as utensils and stone tools, to the development of the wheel, carriages, horses, letter writing, telegrams, the telephone, email, social media, and speculates on future technologies like teleportation and humanoid robots. It highlights how each new technology changed life and made certain tasks easier to accomplish.
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ears ave g eginning.
to
Sticks as uensils. Stone turned to circle. Days when running from dinosaurs was
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Changed everyou echnology formed and life as ithey knon here
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all
Heav you
things became easiereally
to move. Gradually whave once made of stone then
at was
became made of wood. Somethng called a wheelbarrow was created. A now
is d the
word carriage came about.
Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
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Wheeswne from caves to carriages. H
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orses and carr ages carried letters.
Letters were delivered the momentritten.
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After l e tters, there then came telegrams with hrses, then telegrams with trains,
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Finall y, the jovialtelegr ams and wires.
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Daily mail is actually a new technology to the world
Waste none of his present.
Roger Babson
3. Love, four letters
Two voels,
w
Two consonance,
matter
Balanced.
Like the lve we h for the un human
o ave
That which connects us to humans
Not what is fce-to-face, but what is
a
Boxed.
Wired. Dirty your
Cold.
Televis ion.
Compuer.
t
Cell Phone.
Cutting off ties,
Your future life,
Ruling our is always spotless.
What have we become?
Unknown
4. For what is yet to come
What will become of what
When it arives?
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Life moves too quickly
In a direction that is ver i
ydfferent
Emily Dickinson Every
single
Day.
C alculating
The end,
But before
This is a thing.
What will be?
Fro m a past time whenrawingn the wall wa
d o se
mail
To a letter
To a telegram
To an email
To an instant message
To Facebook, Twitter
And what is yet to be?
Teleportation to avoid physical activity,
Robots with our faces taking skype mobile
Then no one will have to leave their bed
Robots to do everything in fact
Because its not like the
Unemployment rate isnt in
Enough trouble
Editor's Notes
You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present
No matter how dirty your past is, your future is always spotless.