Communication emerged as a means to stay in touch. People began with the idea of a letter delivered by the Pony express and soon after telegrams using Morse code. Dial telephone was invented next followed by the answering machine and improvement of landline phones. Radio and television begin to emerge as well. Soon these young inventions started transforming. Phones were able to make long distance calls, and later became wireless. The radio began to increase the number of channels available and later developed to AM and FM stations.  Television started to have many different networks and was able to be broadcasted instead of being shown live. Computers were invented and we entered into the world of technological development with the World Wide Web.

The present is a dependence on this array of communication technologies. People no longer use telegrams, but have an addiction to texting. Smartphone are more important than landlines and have the capability of a computer. Iphones, Blackberries and Droids are taking over the simplistic flip phones. Emails have completely replaced the written letter. The Internet is a way to stay in touch with friends through Facebook and twitter and Skype, but also a way to meet new friends through dating websites and online games like World of Warcraft.  We are becoming addicted to these technologies. Communication is slipping away from face to face contact and is more common through the use of a machine.

The future is unknown. When will we stop developing communication technologies? Is there an end in sight? Will we become too consumed that we live our life in the world of a matrix and have no human face-to-face contact? Will we completely separate ourselves from the natural world? The future is something to be feared, but we have to remember why we love these communication technologies. To simply communicate more extensively with our friends and family than before is a truthful reason, but we must enter the future with caution and not forgot how we used to survive without our Blackberry, without our MacBook Pro, without the Internet and Facebook.  These new communication technologies make our lives easier, but we should never forget what life used to be like and we should fear what life will be like if we do not remember the importance of the natural world and face to face contact.