Gregory Clark
HUM/186
1/11/16
Instructor: Steven Gaffen

Life has changed very drastically from the past century and the reason for it is the steady growth of media technology. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were no television, Internet or smartphones. People read newspapers to get their local news, spent more time reading books for their knowledge, but now people very seldom look at a newspaper or pick up a book because the internet and smartphone have taken its place. A 2010 Pew Research Center report found that more Americans receive their news via the Internet than from newspapers or radio sources and that the Internet is the third most popular news source behind national and local television news.
The internet has such a great influence on the media today until people feel lost if they could not get on the web, or on social media, everything you need is at your fingertips just by the push of a button. No matter where you are you will find people on their cell phones. I was standing in line at a local college, and the line was very long, when I began observing everyone, I notice just about every student was on their cell phone, either talking, playing games, or searching the web. I told my son to look around, and he immediately knew what I was saying.
In the 1870's, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham both created the telephone. This was a massive technological change that would shape our world today. Before the creation of this invention, people were communicating via the Telegraph. The dot-and-dash Morse code system was a very successful way of communicating. However, a change was needed; people needed to talk to people. This is where the telephone began.
Televisions are also a fast moving digital change. They have gone from black and white to color in the space of a decade and nowadays they are in HD and more recently 3D. When television