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This allowed for mass production of documents and allowed ideas to spread, although not many could read at this time.
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This was published by scientists and engineers, and allowed ideas to be shared and science to progress and advance.
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By this time technology has improved to allow for monthly printing. Not only the rich could read now, many more were learning.
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The Times was born!
Technology now allows for daily printing, and people can find out today what happened yesterday, which has speeded up massively.
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This now means that people can communicate freely in real time and over long distances. It was also used to help in commerce to notify people of deliverys etc.
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This allows people to communicate but only if they could afford it.
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This is a government owned broadcaster and is the first mass media which can be transmitted directly into peoples homes. Millions of radios are bought.
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This is an incredibly powerful form of media. Today there are approximately 24 million TV's in the UK.
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This was invented by the US military, so that if one base was destroyed, they could still communicate.
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This allows for the transmission of hundreds of channels and also this has layed the groundwork for broadband.
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This cost about £2,000 when it first came out, and weighed 1kg. It only had half an hours worth of talk time but ws only used by businesses.
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This is very high tech and allows for even more channels to be discovered. This allows for live and importing direct from the scene of the events. 10 million people subscribe up for this.
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This is the most popular of the instant communication. 1 billion text messages are now sent per week.
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This allowed people to search for information and also buy things online.
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This allowed for recording videos and taking voice recordings, so now everybody is a reporter. People are able to upload images to the internet.
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By now the internet is all about social networking. Myspace, BEBO, facebook, twitter, tumblr, MSN.
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High speed internet access on mobile phones. Also networks set up for free contact such as BBM.