The Tide of Technology

            I believe that at a certain point in time everything we find familiar will be overtaken by something new.  Technology is ever changing, that’s just how it works.  Take for instance how we receive information from the media and other out side sources.  Before the presence of technology it took weeks or even months to send word of an event to someone by horseback and foot.  But as we gained technology times changed, and eventually we found ways to replace slow communication and distribution of news and events to everyone quickly.

            As we headed into an age of technology, the way we received vital outside information changed.  Instead of horseback, we eventually got introduced to the radio and soon after that, the T.V.  While many during the 1900’s received news via newspaper, as the years went on with the help of technology we began finding other ways to find news coverage.

            When radio updates took too long to relay to listeners the news began streaming on the television.  Now three sources of finding news were available.  It is the Internet however that changed the face of media broadcasting in my opinion. 

            People begin to adapt to things when they offer easier access to a task that once took up more time.  For example people once had to drive to buy newspapers and although some may still do so today, electronically filed copies of the same events are online within the comfort of your home.  Internet users said they stopped a subscription to a newspaper or magazine because they now get the same or related content online (Irvine, Don).  This goes to show that once “fads” have now been replaced by newer technology, which is why I believe traditional media will in fact become less relevant in the near future.  We may use the Internet now to receive media broadcasting, but who knows what is in store ten years down the road.

Source:

Irvine, Don. "Newspapers Lose More Ground to the Internet ." Canada Free Press

     28 July 2010: n. pag. Canada Free Press. Web. 28 Mar. 2012.

     <http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/25896>.