Old V.S New Media

Our society has been rapidly changing over the last 1,000 years, so it is likely that our forms of media will drastically change too. It is crazy how far we have come in such a short time. Just wait 100 more years, you just couldn’t believe what technological advances that could be on the way.

Media is constantly changing. The printing press started putting information out for the public. It was started by German Johannes Gutenberg. The printing press was the grandfather to books and newspapers. Almost all the information is now online and even books are digital now and days. I can’t wait to see how much media progress in the next 5 years. A couple of years ago, MySpace was the primary social network, now it is all about Twitter and Facebook. Before cell phones, computers, the only ways to spread media was smoke signals, word of mouth, and fireworks. We can now also make calls, texts, or surf the web whenever we want to with our "smart phones". Cell phones only came out in the early 1990's, and they were only used for calling. I can not wait until the end of my lifetime to see how far technology will come, it is something that I will keep my eye on.