Roots of Revolution

I faced a huge tragedy the other night.  I was sitting in my living room watching a youtube video for a Spanish assignment and the unthinkable thing happened; I lost Internet.  It was tragic.  For a mere three minutes I felt I was lost and unconnected not only from a video I was watching for an assignment, but from every question out there.  Luckily all I had to do was reset the router, but the feeling was alien and quite surprising.  Life without the Internet is hard because I felt aloof from technology or from communication.

Now to the reading....

It is amazing how much technology has come since the invention of the telephone.  Now, we can make calls without thinking, connect to the Internet and access our email on our cell phones all while listening to the built-in mp3 player.  Technology is amazing.  One interesting effect it has is the de-personalization in the workforce and the shrinking effect it has on the number of people that have to present at one time.  Now you can have conference calls with people halfway around the world and can work from your home due to technology.  

I think the future of the cell phone is quite interesting for journalists due to the shrinking size of the newspaper industry and readership.  I think journalism will soon go to cell phone distribution for the tech-savy and not tech-savy.