Communication has been a part of the human race for ages. Communication has been very important for us to tell each other what we are thinking and doing and what we can do together. Early forms of communication have been done through smoke signals or the beating of a drum when humans were not in ear shot of someone’s voice who was trying to communicate with them. Humans have been trying to communicate with each other for centuries and as time goes by we are learning new and better forms of communication.
After smoke signals and drum beats we tried to make our forms of communication even better with ponies and trains. Telegraph lines where spread across the country in an effort to make communication even easier and faster. Along came the radio and the telephone and it made it even easier for us to communicate with one another for long distances and in a faster form of communication. Radio allows us to communicate with several people at one time and telephones make it easy to talk to just one person without everyone else hearing.
My parents remember a time when there was no television and I asked them “what did you do?” They said they did more social things and the work they did was more time consuming then it is now. I can remember when I was a child television was black and white and we didn’t watch it as much as we do now. I only had three channels to watch and so there wasn’t always something on that I wanted to see. My kids ask “what was watching only black and white television like?” And I tell them “the same as colored only you had to use your imagination a little more when you watched it.” Television has really come a long way.
Nothing has changed our way of communicating with other people faster and more efficiently then the television. Television changed our way of communication in ways that we don’t think about much. In the early part of the l900’s people toyed with television but television did not become real popular till about the l950’s. In the l950’s most television screens were only 8 inched in diameter and the picture was black and white and it was not always clear. Today we have large televisions with clear pictures and cable and dish to make the picture even clearer. Television can communicate to millions of people at one time and television is entertaining so people want to sit and listen to it. Television can keep our attention and entertain us. Television can be a real learning tool for children if they are watching the right programs. And television can give us important information that we need to know.
Some people are very much against television and don’t even own one but if you watch the right shows, television can be very good for learning and information and this is the information age. Still it is a personal preference weather you want to watch television or not. Most homes in the industrialized countries have at least one television.
