Communications

Today we use all sorts of communication technology. We can e-mail or instant message each other through the world wide web. This is one of the most popular means of communication today. I'm sure if ranked in order of most used communication, it would be the web. People are e-mailing and instant messaging because its one of the quickest ways of communicating if your to busy to call by phone. Another popular used communication is the cell phone. I think everyone has one by now. The cell phone operate through wireless medium. Radio waves traveling back and fort from your cell phone,to the nearest cell site. The cell phone created the means of conversing on a hand held device not being bounded by wire, thus creating wireless communication. Cordless phone have the same effect just cell phone have a wider range you can travel and talk.

The old communication methods are still use today as well. People still buy stamps and post letters addressed to destinations that are not as privilege to communication technologies as others. Some areas are not developed or the use of these communications are not yet economical to use. The land lines in the house are a good backup means of communication. In a blackout situation, when there is no power to run the computers, the Internet and the cell sites that cell phones use. The land lines prevail among all. New Yorkers witness this a year ago, when there was a blackout that took the Utility company a day to restore power to the New York tri state area.

As time past we discover new means of communicating, and making services more efficient. In hope of a better tomorrow. Communication technology has come a long way. One can say they are more sophisticated ways of communicating nowadays. People forget the telegraph, which messages were send back an fort in Morse code.