The telephone is an audio and communicative technology that
revolutionized human relationships. Telephones enhance audio communication and
human relationships, providing synchronous communication with one another that
transcends location. The technology tool reduces or eliminates the for distance
communicative technologies such as the telegraph, signal flags, among other
things. It retrieves the ability to continue to communicate with others who are
not in physical proximity to each other, therefore increasing connectedness of
interpersonal relationships despite geographical separation. Video-conferencing
technology tools such as Skype or VTok among the many others reverses the
telephone’s technological breakthrough because it replaces it with synchronous audio-visual
communication, which is in many ways superior to communication via exclusively
audio because interaction has oral and physical characteristics such as body language.
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ReplyDeleteMicah,
ReplyDeleteThe traditional telephone does reverses video-conferencing, as you rightly said, but these emerging technologies, in addition to having the computer as their platform, do have the modern telephone –smart phone – as their platform also. Therefore, in all essence, the telephone retrieves itself. That is so funny, but it is true.
Micah, do you think that as the telephone continues to reverse as a smart phone it could also include the key remote of motor vehicles?
Micah,
ReplyDeleteThe telephone was such a significant invention in its creation. It has continued to maintain its relevance centuries later. Do you see this device being obsoleted by another communicative device in the future? What will this device be capable of doing? Why was there a need to create this device?