Culture Changes Within Communication

Cultural Changes within Telecommunications

Nichole Edwards

Ashford University

Professor Edward Ong

July 19, 2013

Cultural Changes within Telecommunications

As of today, telecommunications technology has been a major influence on modern technology. Technology trends are changing every day. Early telecommunication consists of ‘smoke signals, visual signals, beacons, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs” (Wikipedia). There are several “other telecommunication technologies,” “which include telegraph, telephone, and teleprinter, networks, radio, microwave transmission, fiber optics, communications satellites and the internet”.

The first telecommunication process was smoke signals used by the Native Americans of North and South, and the drums, which are used by the peoples of Africa, Mew Guinea, and South America. The smoke signals allow the transmission of information to be complex. Smoke signals were to indicate beach whales, so that more can take the meat from the carcass before it decomposes.

“In the Middle Ages, beacons were used to communicate over long distances. Beacons were installed on hilltops and mountains so they could be easily visible from afar” (crisinfo.org/telecommunications). There were restrictions on the beacons, which lead back to messaging being transmitted with the help of semaphore lines that was used in ancient Greece. “However, electrical telegraph were designed in the middle of the 19th century, visual telegraphs ceased to e used altogether.” The first permanent cable was the “transatlantic telephone cable, however, could only be used in 1956. At the beginning of the 20th century, radio and later television were invented. The most important research concerning computers and internet took place in the 1970s and 1980s; technologies in that field are still developing and expanding rapidly’.

Thanks to telecommunication, global communications were built and economic growth has increased. Need to say,...