Logan Coursen

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Technology changing World

 

Technology has and still is changing the world we live in today. In the past couple hundred years we have made some big advances in all parts of technology. One in particular is the invention of the internet. From the end of the 1950s until about the end of the 1980s we were constructing something that would let people surf online. In 1989 the World Wide Web was invented. This opened opportunities to people they never had before. Instead of going to the library to do research they could just look it up on the internet.

            During the 1990s there was an exponential growth of the internet, the first web browser was created. From there on out the internet expanded rapidly to what we know of the internet today. In today’s world something we didn’t have 30 years prior is CMC also known as computer mediated communication. This allows for one to communicate with others through media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, ect. The internet and computer mediated communication are influenced by channel type, participants, nature of relationships, topic/purpose, public vs private, and attitude.

The attributes of the internet are important something else that’s just as important in understanding all aspects of the internet are the qualities. The one quality I wanted to focus on is multimedia. With multimedia on the internet people have been able to now communicate in ways we never thought could be possible. Through multimedia people can access Facebook, Twitter, and communicate with someone from one side of the world to the other instantaneously. Multimedia has made computer mediated communication much easier. Progression like this will continue to happen twenty years from now and twenty years from now we could be even more technologically advanced.

Being technologically advanced can and is a good thing in our society today but it could also be a bad thing. Around the world the amount of hours spent on the internet using multimedia has risen drastically in the past couple of years. Media in this way is causing people to become obsessed therefore sitting on the couch all day and not getting the daily amount of exercise they need to stay healthy. Computer mediated communication can be one reason why this generation is so lazy and have obese levels higher than ever before.

A question to ponder on is, is multimedia on the internet and computer mediated communication such a good idea and should it keep being advanced and easier and easier for people to use?  Who knows, thirty years from now everything in a person’s life could be done through using the internet. It’s impossible to slow down the growing of technology but if there was a way to control it that would be the best outcome. If it were up to me I would try and control the production of any more computer mediated communication devices and I would focus on keeping us healthy. I would also focus on making advances in technology that need to be done not because people want them to be done.