New communicators transform our relationships
Our relationships are no longer the same, thanks to modern communications:
Beam me up, Scotty — before he could utter those immortal words, Captain James T Kirk first had to pull a small device called a ‘communicator’ from his pocket. He’d flip it open, it would chirrup, and communication was established.
In the 1960’s when the Star Trek TV show was created, such a device was the stuff of wildest dreams. Now, in 2008, we wonder why the only thing the ‘communicator’ could do was make what amounted to phonecalls.
Almost everyone now carries a ‘communicator’: a tiny cellphone and/or a tiny MP3 music player. Their capabilities are amazing: phones take photos and MP3 players play videos; keep address books and calendars on both, or either. …
Where you can connect to a wireless network you can use an iPod touch to check email and RSS feeds, browse web pages, Twitter, Facebook and pretty much anything else on the Internet, along with accessing YouTube and the iTunes Store with all its podcasts. Oh, and don’t forget Google Maps that can not only show you where a location is and how it looks, but also give you turn by turn driving directions.
Read more about how we’re caught up in a web of ongoing communications at: iPod touch and iPhone transform our relationships.
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