Technology Impacts on our Daily Life Communication
I need to see you, Watson, so come on in. The dependable telephone has had a good run since Alexander Graham Bell spoke these first words about his revolutionary invention in 1876. Bell's original vision was for "one in every town." Of course, he was correct; in actuality, everyone now carries one in their pocket. However, thanks to technology , messaging and social media have supplanted the classic audio call as a method of staying in touch. Video calling is a different medium that has experienced a boom in recent years. Although the idea is not particularly novel—it has existed for roughly as long as Bell's telephone—the advent of high-speed broadband at reasonable costs has made it much simpler to send and receive the quantities of data required for a video call. While video calling has been gradually integrating into daily life over the past ten years, the ongoing pandemic has pushed it over the edge and guaranteed its future as a commonplace means of communicatio