The influence or the telephon on American life.

Telephone is not a luxury or an accessory but a mandatory and a necessary method in today’s world.
Before telephone was invented, the main communication unit was family. News was slow, and people knew what was going on by newspapers mostly. To contact with people who live far, people used letters or even doves.
When telephone is invented, it was a symbol of luxury. Telephone was not a common accommodation, and rare people have it.
After telephone became common, people had their own telephones in their houses, and people also can use public telephone to call anyone.
Now, cellular phone is invented, and house phone became an accessory. Also public phone started to disappear. Almost everyone can talk to anyone in anywhere at anytime. Now, the main communication unit became the world.
Telephone narrows the wide communication space and time. In the past, the world was really a vague place, but today, the world is just like a country. People send a letter to someone else who lives in another country, it used to take 10 days to go and another 10 days to come. However, now, people can call anyone in any country immediately. Moreover, with cell phones, people can check their e-mail or news on demand, and they can even listen to music through MP3 players that are in their cell phones.
The invention of telephone improved people’s life; people can know what happened in the world faster, and the world became a town. However, too much development produced cellular phone, and it intensified individualism. People started to make their own world, and refused to communicate with other people; eventually, cellular phone narrows social communities.
I also have a cell phone, and if I lose it or disconnect it, I might feel isolated and uncomfortable. Everyone has their own cell phone, and some of them even don’t have their home phone. Telephone is placed deep not only in American society but also in the world society.
There is not influence that Americans only have because of the telephone. As I said above, the world is a town these days. Influence of telephone is worldwide. Individualism spread all over the world, and it is still spreading. I think the invention of telephone makes our life easier and more comfortable, but I don’t think it only have bright sides.

Definition of the word "technology."

Definition of the word “technology” from my dictionary is “a combination of all the knowledge, equipment, methods etc. That is used in scientific or industrial work.” That means, things we use for our convenience are all in the part of technology and we are living in a world of technology.
When I first heard the word “technology,” I imagined TV, radio, internet, and so on. However, now I think that those are just methods to use technology to our lives. Technology means more broad and basic underneath than those tools, and I think one of the good examples of technology is electricity.
Without electricity, we cannot use anything such as light, computer, TV, and so on, and our lives will be that in the ancient time. All the companies and factories will stop their work, and we will use fire to cook and make our clothes by ourselves.
To make the definition clear, technology is artificial things that help our lives comfortable. That means, even a pen we use is also one of technology because it helps us to write and record things easier.
Car is also a good example of technology. It reduces time that we consume to move from on place to another, and we also can carry a lot of stuff putting them in the car.
However, I don’t think that technology is only in the frame of visibility. Technology is not only visible but also invisible. A good example of invisible technology is education. We want our surroundings to be more convenient. No one wants his or her life to be uncomfortable. That’s why people buy a new stuff or learn something.
Through education in school, we learn how to think wiser reviewing the process how people in the ancient time thought. Through education at job, we learn skills to manage some equipment. That is the process how we control our technology system.
By learning more and more, we will be satisfied or unsatisfied with technology, and we can develop an unsatisfied technology to an advanced technology closer to be a satisfied one. Without desire to make the world developed, we can’t create any single technology in our lives.
That is my shallow definition and opinion about technology. To tell the truth, even though I use the word “technology,” I’ve never been thinking about what technology is, and still I am not sure what it is. Through this “technology reporting” class, I hope that I can get a clear idea about technology and learn how to use it efficiently.

test

test post