Out of these three articles my favorite was Baron, mostly because I could understand his ideas better than the other authors. What I truly found extraordinary was the Thoreau Pencil Company that Henry David Thoreau had started and maintained, in order to fund his trips to Walden pond. That followed up by the invention the telegram, which Thoreau showed disdain for, as well as Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone. Both of these rather new inventions did not compare to the pencil's availability at first, but the telephone will overshadow both of these innovative forms of communication. It is interesting to observe the patterns of technological communication breakthroughs and one point I noticed is how the new technology is very expensive and tailored to one specific task. Like the pencil for instance was only used by carpenters until it became remodeled and improved to be applicable for many other jobs, such as those of an artist, scribe, or explorer. The same goes for the personal computer and the telephone. Our computers today are our phones, pencils, and telegrams. They have revolutionized how we communicate, but where do we go from here? Will computers become hologram screens that are in super HD? Or will everything become smaller and smaller and we end up with an Augmented reality where our screens are engraven on our contact lenses? These Nano technologies have come up in alot of movies lately, in one of them I watched recently, G.I. Joe, they were weaponized and became a terrorist weapon. Is hollywood conditioning us to accept the creation of these technologies in the future?
What are all your thoughts on what, when, and how the next technological communication breakthough will occur?
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