Television technology The technology that I’ve chosen to write about is the television. (Oxford University, 1997) defines television as a system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens chiefly used for broadcasting programs for entertainment, information, and education. In 1927, the beginning of television, the pictures presented on screen was only shown in black and white. Television eventually evolved into color pictures in the early 1940’s. Over the next eighty years television will undergo numerous advancements from cable TV, high definition, to 3D television with even more advancements made to televisions for the future. This paper will explain three impacts of television, 1. That it competes with other ways of human interaction, 2. Provides information and entertainment. 3. Television could be damaging to one’s personality. The first impact that television has is that it competes with other ways of human interaction such as Friends, Family, and School (Human Communication Research, 1985). It also has an influence with young people in helping them develop values and ideas from events happening around the world. It also has a hand in contributing to viewer’s attitudes and beliefs about themselves as well as socially, ethnically, and cultural backgrounds. Television has a visually interesting and highly interesting style that commands many human’s attention for several hours a day. The second impact television can have is providing information to a mass group of people at once. Mass Media is informational on broadcasting important events. Television can report negative or positive information. There are various amounts of news broadcasting channels on any standard cable or television packages with all network providers. Television broadcast sports, business, politics, and religion and all events globally. Television previews news in a foreshadowing thought of its choice to viewers not always given the chance for people to formulate their own thoughts and opinions based off what news is being viewed on television. The third impact of television is that it can be damaging to one’s personality. There are many topics portrayed on television that can contribute to one’s personality about its own culture or someone else’s culture that can be in false pretenses or misunderstood. The old folk tales goes “Watching too much television can destroy the brain cells.” Recent research has revealed a child which indulges in many hours of television has lower I.Q. levels. (Cerebral Cortex Journal, 2014) reveals large amounts of television changes the structures of the front-polar region of a human’s brain region. The front-polar region of the brain is linked to intellectual ability. In conclusion the evolution of advancing television technology will never cease. Every home in America has least two televisions or more; humans will not ever stop watching television. As long as television networks cater to the need of entertaining humans, more technological enhancements will continue to increase. We as humans have a need for information and entertainment since the production of the television. This has been most of society’s major source of media. REFERENCES: Oxford University Dictionary Vol. 3 (1997) Human Communication Research (Authors: Alan M. Rubin, Elizabeth M. Perse, Robert A. Powell) (March 1985) Cerebral Cortex Journal (Oxford University) (July 2014)