Check out my latest creation (to be published in the USQ Paper...) Hope you like it :) Sizing up the modern mobile… Erin Canavan investigates how much progress the mobile phone has really made… When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, he revolutionised communication as we knew it. No more blotched letters scrawled in messy ink, no more interminable waits for vital information from friends and family. Indeed, the invention of the telephone laid the foundation for a flourishing future in the communications industry. While the first telephone had a major impact upon communication, both locally and globally, technology has evolved exponentially since Bell’s time. We have gone from grassroots, cumbersome technologies to advanced, smarter and slimmer devices. Or, it seems, until very recently. Just a few days ago when I was watching The Simpsons (like all the cool Uni students…), an ad for the Samsung Galaxy S4 exploded across the screen. ‘A lifelong companion,’ it declared beseechingly. Really? That thing? Forget a lifetime. If I couldn’t even fit it in my handbag, it wouldn’t be my companion for a day! Even though it may be possible to conduct nuclear physics experiments on the beast, it seems a little archaic to be lugging a phone that is akin to Bell’s first bulky invention around all day, every day. Yes, I’ll admit it. We have come a long way since that first telephone of Alexander Graham Bell’s. We are probably wired to our phones more often than is really justifiable, and we can text, call, Facebook and Snap Chat with the swipe of a finger. The invention of the telephone, once something so complex and rare is now ubiquitous; simple to use, ever-changing, and becoming increasingly taken for granted. But look at Samsung’s latest product, pause for a moment, and consider: Are our modern technological advances causing us lose touch of what the ‘mobile’ telephone really is?
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:38:15 +0000
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