Tools used in the Contemporary World to Accomplish Better Global Communication

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Think about where we would be in the world today had technology not expand rapidly andglobally? Humans are inherently different visually, and often times represents seeing theindividual in person he or she is communicating with seem more accepting than using thetechnology tools and resources now at hand. A graph, picture, or statistics can communicateideas rapidly with better clarity than words itself. However, some generalizations are beenmade especially with communication through technology tools in today modern times . Thesedays, learning to communicate with others in many different form without knowing or seeing whowe are communicating with through the height of our technology systems, makes it easier tocreate and maintain relationships globally and bringing people together as an open diverseuniversal society.

The history of global communication through technology has been long and has had manypeaks and valleys. According to an unknown author, he or she wrote in an article naming thechanges or tools invented technology wise.

These are a few that the author has named in thearticle where the history encounters ('hand carried overland using caravans, ships,horseback, or on foot. Transportation changed everything: trains, stagecoach, overland express,ship. The Age of the telegraph, radio, and television leads to rapid communicationconsequences like using Satellite feeds for rapid, better services. Fax machines, telephones,computers, email, internet, and miniaturization became more popular in the modern world dayby day, by the quick addition of more technology tools'). In other forms the way these tools hasaffected our global society is the changes in our now communication cultures all over the world.

On a quest as old as civilization itself, people everywhere have been in a never-ending pursuitof ways to overcome physical shortcomings; like no known animal before it, man hasrelentlessly sought ways to bend the laws of nature in his favor Foley,2000). First using crudetools to compensate for physical...