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Communication is treated as the center of human life. Every aspect of our daily life is affected by communication (Little John, 2005)

Communication as a named and unified discipline has a history of contestation that goes back to the Socrates period, though studied systematically since antiquity the significant of this topic created more interest only during the 20th century. As Little John would perceive it – the period of “revolutionary discovery” largely caused by the rise of technology

Human communication and technology begins with the invention of writing, it includes pigeon training, ink, woodblocks, 16th century books, and 17th and 18th century pamphlets. As Ms.Srivatsan quoted “Any kind of communication follows certain protocols or guidelines.” (Ms.Srivatsan, 2007). One of the most important aspects of work in the 21st century is that it is becoming more and more distributed. People can work from any place on earth, accessing their data and interacting with their colleagues/friends from anywhere and anytime.

Being an Information and Communication scientist, I strongly believe:

Ideas lead to Innovation and Innovation leads to technology

Hence, I am going to discuss the growth in technology in relevance to communication. “Communication is the verbal interchange of a thought or idea” ( Little John , 2005) Communication on the technology median can be occurred using Mobile phones, social network, blogging, Skype, video/voice conferencing.

MOBILE PHONES: The deep integration of mobile phones into modern life has been a necessity in day to day lives. In most of the developing countries, mobile penetration is strongly correlated with economic growth and social benefits. For instance, India, a developing country in South Asia with a population of over one billion people, has low telephony penetration of just 18 % of the population, but has now become one of the high volume, high growth telecommunication services market in the world. This proves the involvement of technology into the communication industry.

SOCIAL NETWORK: These create a great platform for communication. For instance, MySpace – one of such social networks that provide something simple called the “wall”. The wall is nothing but a messaging area of a user’s profile page, where any “friend” of the user can post comments and thoughts. The value of the wall points to a very important dimension of building and running any web property that’s driven by community… that communications ultimately serves as the anchor feature and the driver of maintenance and growth.

BLOGGING: The process of penning down our thoughts and expressing our views to the open pubic. It is to be a place where such (thoughts/expressions) are made and then people can read through them and leave in their comments. Example of one such place is BlogSpot, on such medians the commentator can critic on the writer and displaying their identity or being anonymous is his/her preference. Generally blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject & sometimes even used as an online diary.

SKYPE: A software program that makes communicating with people around the world easy and fun. Skype is available in 28 languages and is used in almost every country around the world.
It works by moving your use of voice from telephony to a kind of intercom where rather than closing a line down you just temporarily mute it. Such social net reflects a revolution in the way that we use our tools. By using Skype we can call different countries landlines/mobile for a specific amount & call computers for a free with video (live). We can also enable such technology in the business environment where the users/ entrepreneurs are mobile and try to work from where they are at a specific moment. For instance, imagine that an online meeting is scheduled to start at 10am. The user is currently moving and the user’s personal support system allows him/her to join the meeting via a mobile phone instead. The user would not have to initiate the call but the support system will automatically call the mobile phone & when the user reaches office a dialog window might be shown at his/her desktop screen asking if she wants to transfer to an audio to the computer or to his/her desktop phone. This enables a proper mean of communication and for today’s fast moving life style it is very much a necessity to stay connected always.

As quoted by Ms. Archana Balasubramanian “Today our society is so overpowered by the power of technology that most of our lives revolve around machines rather than people”. Hence, I would conclude by saying Human Communication can always be altered depending on different factors but in today’s lifestyle technology plays a vital role in determining our way of communication. It was always said that, tension constantly persists in using a communication technology to get things done, but NOW communication technologies are the ONLY field used to connect, to create communication…….