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If one man had to be credited with the start of the radio then that man would be named David Sarnoff. David Sarnoff was born in Uzlian, a small Russian Jewish village near the city of Minsk. He was born into a poor Jewish family, the eldest son of Abraham and Leah Sarnoff. At this time, Jews were not given many opportunities in Russia, so Sarnoff's future seemed to include him becoming a Rabbi eventually. Sarnoff’s father then moved to the United States and raised funds to bring the family.http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/S/htmlS/sarnoffdavi/sarnoffdavi.htm

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The European Renaissance started in the midst of religious turmoil. Many people were calling for a reformation while others were trying to counter the reformation. According to dictionary.com, reformation means, the religious movement in the 16th century that had for its object the reform of the Roman Catholic Church, and that led to the establishment of the Protestant churches, and counter reformation means, the movement within the Roman Catholic Church that followed the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.
The protestant reformation started with Martin Luther in 1517. Martin Luther was a German Monk, who was considered to be the founder of Protestantism. Luther also translated the Bible into German. Luther was a very outspoken man who had a distaste for Jewish people. He wrote many writings about his feels of what the people were doing, and how to solve them.
The Counter Reformation was brought about by the Catholic religion. The Pope Pius IV called for a revival.
The Catholic Reformation was a comprehensive effort, composed of five major elements:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter_reformation
1. Doctrine
2. Ecclesiastical or Structural Reconfiguration
3. Religious Orders
4. Spiritual Movements
5. Political Dimensions

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Today information is being spread at a very fast rate of speed. This is due to the new technologies available. Many of these technologies are very easy to understand and use, such as AIM instant messenger, email, and video conferencing. These all seem very easy to use, but where they when they first came out.
Since the information renaissance there have been many new technologies that could have been useful, but the public was not ready for them when they came out. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9012345 , April 04, 2007 (Computerworld) “Hype is the coin of the realm in the technology business. If you listen to vendors and the media, it may sometimes seem as though every new product, service, concept or even security threat will be the Next Big Thing. Some live up to all the fuss, but many don't -- and some fail spectacularly.”(Haskin, 2007) This link has the top 21 technology flops and many of them are technologies that have to do with communication.
Those products that are on the list may seem like you have heard of them before, and you probably have because they are on the market now. Many of these products came out in the early 90’s when people were not ready. They did not have the attitude that we have now. Today people want the newest item on the market, and they are willing to spend the time learning how to use it. We will still continue to see communication devises fail, but I feel that they will be more successful because of our change of attitude for technology.

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http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.htmlDoes web 2.0 actually have a definition? As I researched this question I found some very interesting articles. One article explained it as, “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them.”
Many people are arguing that web 2.0 is not actually a business revolution, but it is actually a consumer revolution. I feel the same way. Like all products, web 2.0 must be taken in by the people (Consumer). I feel that this more of a movement that the people are making. The consumer is now moving to a more open source of information sharing.
Business however are creating the tools that we the consumer are using to push this movement forward. I can understand how both sides feel about this topic, but I do not feel that this is an actual business ordeal. Another quote that I found stated, “Don’t fight the internet.” I feel that this is the best way to look at the situation. Web 2.0 is for the most part free to use through the internet. With It being free, it makes it more of a consumer pushed idea than a business idea.

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The new trend in concept car creation is “Robot Cars”. Robot cars have the capability to help drivers in many different ways. They also help control the roads as well. Since the car was invented over 100 years ago, people have been coming up with new ideas that they hope will change the way we drive cars today.

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I am a huge Atlanta Braves fan, and early on this semester I got to do some research on Ted Turner. I thought that some of you might enjoy seeing how he grew up to be the business man he is today. This is just to the point where he takes over his fathers billboard company!
Today Ted has slowed down on the business side and he has started focusing on charities. If you want to see more about what Ted is doing today here is a wonderful site. http://www.tedturner.com/enterprises/home.asp

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The new emerging trend in the telephony industry today is Voice over Internet Protocol, also known as VoIP. A short description of VoIP would be transferring voice content over the internet. In other words, Voice over IP sends digital telephony signals in encapsulated data packets that are then streamed over the IP world. Before these signals are sent, the data is compressed by speech data compression techniques to make the transfer of the voice data much quicker.

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According to Dictionary.com, a renaissance is “the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.” The American Heritage dictionary defines Europe as, “The sixth-largest continent, extending west from the Dardanelles, Black Sea, and Ural Mountains. It is technically a vast peninsula of the Eurasian land mass.” http://www.jcn.com/humanism.php4
Throughout history there have been many renaissances. The European Renaissance however was one of the biggest. “The Renaissance (1300-1600) is marked by cultural changes, influenced by Humanism, Machiavelli, da Vinci, the Medici Family, and Martin Luther.”(Mealey, 2007) This was when there was massive change going on throughout the country. The main changes were in society, art, and religion.
This was the end of the middle ages for Europe and the start of the modern world. They were now looking back for inspiration from past heroic people and making the change into the new and modern world. The main movement throughout the renaissance was Humanism, “A key component of the Renaissance was the intellectual movement known as Humanism. Humanism was based on the study of classical Greek and roman cultures.” (Mealey, 2007)

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Communication can be a very difficult idea to explain. There are many different theories available for us to base out own theory on. I would like to explain to you a few ideas that I have on communication. As you will see that Shannon Weaver model plays a huge part in my theory of communication.
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Throughout history, communication has been a very important asset to the survival of humans. People must communicate with one another so that tasks and duties can be preformed. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines communication as “a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior.” While communication has changed vastly over the past million years, the main idea behind communication has remained the same.

To have human communication there must be at least two people involved, a sender and a receiver. The sender encodes a message and sends it to the receiver. A message is some type of information sent through a medium. The type of medium that is used depends on the type of message being sent. Communication involves both verbal and nonverbal attributes. If the sender verbally tells the receiver something, the medium is voice. If the receiver looks at artwork from an artist, the medium is the canvas. However, getting the message to the receiver can be difficult due to the presence of noise. Noise is anything that hinders the receiver from properly decoding the message.

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With the Information Renaissance becoming such a dominant factor in society today, people are calling for much faster and mobile communication. There have been many attemts to try to create a technology that will allow for communication of both data and voice while moving, but so far none have been very successful. The one technology that I feel will lead the way into the future of the Information Renaissance is WiMAX. For more indepth information go to http://www.wimaxforum.org/home/

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