Week 1 Assignment Telecommunications Evolution Time-line MARVIN SORTOR NTC/362 Dorein Pfeil The beginning of the telecommunication industry started with a dream and some determination on a man named Alexander Graham Bell. In 1867 Bell invented the telephone the first hard-lined device. As the years went on other inventors tried to duplicate the wonders of the telephone communications device. In 1899 the name of Bell Telephone Company changed to American Telephone and Telegraph or (AT&T) as we know it today. The year 1934 marked a highlight in
“Everyone Speaks Text Message” was written by Tina Rosenberg in 2010. By recording the journey of Ibrahima Traore, who seeks to bring the language of N’Ko back to his people, Rosenberg discuss that modern technology has increased its efforts to revive these forgotten languages. Her audience includes the general population or anyone who would read the “New York Times” in 2010. According to this, her audience should be the educated American who interested in other people’s life and technology. The article was published in 2010, by this year; most of Rosenberg’s audience uses cellphones.
Now that you have identified it, what do you need to add to your own argument to convince your audience that this alternate position should be rejected in favor of your own position? The position that may cause my audience to think twice is that hands free devices are the answer to distracted driving. However I would remind them that anything that takes our undivided attention off the road is equally as bad as holding the phone in our hands. 12) Can you think of anything else that your audience might need in order to be persuaded by your argument? No because I believe that I covered all my bases in the
Along with my attention, the author also grabs fear right out of me. Instead of stating the facts about tracking citizens through their cell phones, the author appears to be standing right in front of my face, warning me about the facts. This article was also easier for me to follow. I thought that the first article said companies could find you wherever you are. After the second article told me you had to be in range of a tower, I went back to the first article and noticed my assumption was wrong.
More inventions came about from 1947 to 1949. In 1947, Elmer’s Glue-all was introduced in the United States. In that same year, mobile phones were first invented but were not commercially sold until 1983. In 1948, the first long-playing phonograph was introduced by Columbia Records. Bell Laboratories invented the transistor.
Down with the Patriot Act The Patriot Act is a very controversial law. It allows the government much more room to do as they please. Some of these practices that government officials can do are monitoring phone calls, emails, and going through personal records. They say this will help prevent terrorism, but is losing one’s privacy really worth it? Could there be a better way to prevent terrorism?
Technology is moving and advancing very fast and any attempt to curtail or limit accessibility only serves as a fuel to move faster in order to circumvent any such internet roadblocks. The bill also allows the persecution of any one who assists and provides a way to bypass the system, but this will simply drive the cyberworld to find more obscure means to fight for their freedom to free media and information. The internet community, which includes us and everyone else in the world, sees this as a curtailment of freedom of expression and the repression of creativity rather than being its protector. Mark Lemley, David S. Levine, & David G. Post in their article Don't Break the Internet called SOPA "not only [a violation of] basic principles of due process by depriving persons of property without a fair hearing and a reasonable opportunity to be heard, it also constitutes an unconstitutional abridgement of the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment". Many fear that this could cripple internet technology innovation as well as
Time and Distance Overcome essay We are, today in modern society, more than ever used to the fact that telephones (and now smartphones) play a major role in our everyday lives. It’s almost as if its become a part of us - a new limb, you might say. Believe it or not, though, it wasn’t always like that. In the essay “Time and Distance Overcome” (2008) Eula Biss tells the story of how the phone initially struggled in America, but finally succeeded and become a normal thing in every household. She uses ethos in the first paragraph by showing that she knows history and what went on at the time.
After Jobs death, the identity of the company took a hit as well as their market share. To counter this, apple had to get creative with it’s techonolgy and even recently, at the release of the newest phone, displayed features to it’s phone that had never previously been touted as “tacky” . To compete and stay relvant, a change had to be made and the change was to do what it’s competitors had
In March of 1876 Alexander Graham Bell spoke into a funnel shaped device to one of his colleagues (Bowles, 2011), which at the time was just into the other room. This was the start of the first telephone communications. The Bell Telephone Company which was sponsored by Bell along with 2 other investors was a great invention, which eventually leads to great communication across seas, into homes, businesses etc. Along with the telephone and telegraph companies, we also had the railroad system. With this new system, it leads to faster ways of transportation of goods, travel, and deliveries.