In class today, we went on a small tangent talking about the Chicago Sun Times, and then we started talking about newspapers in general. The newspaper industry is quickly declining as a result of the advances in technology. When I looked for information pertaining to the election, I'd open up a browser window on my computer and look at articles posted on Google or Yahoo or Comcast. I may have glanced at the articles on the front page of the paper, however I never opened it up and sat down to read the content. My grandpa always came over and would read our newspaper front to back because in past decades, the radio and newspaper were the only source of news they had. Today, we have the internet, cell phones, and television channels with news on at just about every hour of the day. The demand for papers have gone down an incredible amount and this just really got me thinking about what will happen in the next few decades with technology. In the past few years, Apple came out with new technology that is sensitive to touch and can hold tons of music as well as act as a cell phone and a camera. Today we have Bluetooth technology, where not only is there no cord to your phone, but you dont even need to hold your phone to your ear in order to talk to someone. Cars can now be electrically powered, televisions and desktop computers can be as thin as a stack of a few papers. Our world is technologically advancing before our eyes. What next? What will they come up with from here? Will the things people thought were absurdly impossible years ago be accessible in the next few decades?
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Andrea I love this post. I think it pertains to our society so well because it's so true! Nobody younger than our parents sits down to actually read a newspaper. Everything is on the internet because its faster and people cant spend 15 minutes enjoying a newspaper, they have to flip from 12 different tasks on a computer at once, just to read a news article. Our world has become very fast paced and I think its so sad that eventually the newspaper sales will be slim to none, because of the internet.
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