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This allowed for the mass production of documents which allowed ideas to spread. In 1439 most people could not read.
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The philisophical journal of Royal Society. It was published by scientists and engineers, which in 1665 were among the only few that could read, to allow ideas to be shared therefore advancing science.
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Technology has improved to allow monthly interest show that more people could read. Although the majority of the population still couldn't read.
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Technology now allows daily printing of 'newspapers' in which people can find out what happened in the previous day and react to it today. This speeds up events and also creates reports.
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This enabled people to communicate which each other in real time over long distances. It was usually used in commerce.
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This device enabled the members of the public to communicate with each other. But it was very expensive so most people didn't have this privilidge.
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The Government owned broadcasters. It was the first mass media tobe transmitted directly into people's homes. Milliona of people bought this privilidge and it was also used by Hitler for propaganda.
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This was and still is an incredibly powerful media source which was able to shape the publics opinions. The BBC was now able to educate, inform and entertain now. In the present day there are 24 million TV's in the UK.
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The internet was invented by the US military. They made it so that they could still keep in touch with others even if one of the bases was destroyed.
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This allows for the transmission of hundreds of channels within the UK. It also lays down groundwork for broadband.
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It costed about £2000 and it weight was about 1kg. It had half an hour talk time and was mostly used by businessmen because they were the people that could afford it and also needed it the most so that it could make their business work easier.
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It is very hi tech and allows for even more channels. It now allows for reporting live and direct from the scene of the even. It has an astonishing 10 million subscribers.
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The most popular form of instant communication was formed; the text message. It is the most popular due to the fact that 1 billion texts are sent per week.
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This allows people to seach for things that they potentially want to buy and it also allows they to purchase it if they desire.
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This mobile phone allows the recording of images and film. This enables everybody who has this mobile to be a reporter because they have the opportunity to record images and upload them for the good or bad.
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By this time the internet has become more about social networking. E.g. myspace, BEBO, facebook etc.
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This allows for extremely high speed internet access on phones.
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Now the internet is becoming more of a tool that finds and arranges things on your behalf. This is often called 'clouds'.