“Whether we use cell phone technology at work, in public, or for personal reasons it all contributes to how connected we feel to other people and to our daily obligations.” (Hanson) Take a walk down any major city in the world Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, Mumbai, Shanghai, or New York City and you will most likely find someone attached to their cell phone or blackberry. The number of cell phone subscribers world wide reached 4.6 billion at the end of 2009 and estimates show a growth rate of one billion cell phone subscribers per year. (Wong) Secretary General Dr. Hamadoun Toure of The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is “confident we will continue to see a rapid uptake in mobile cellular services in 2010, with many more people Students can use their smartphone and listen to music while riding the bus via an application called Pandora (internet radio); which features thousands of songs from their favorite artists, or maintain personal connections via the social network Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook from his dorm room with roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while attending Harvard university. (Facebook) Zuckerberg created Facebook to meet the social cultural needs of his college classmates and their demand for a social network to stay connected with one another. The demand for Facebook continued to grow and eventually grew to 470 million users who also felt the urge to stay connected. The Facebook application helps to keep those connection growing every time someone down loads the application to their cell phone. Students are not the only ones who make use of their smartphones to meet their cultural needs. Businessmen and women alike use their Blackberry smartphones to Email, view calendar entries, keep track of business contacts, keep up-to-date memos, and complete financial transactions for work. Blackberry smartphones can also allow business employees to take their instant messaging and social networking out of the office by utilizing BlackBerry Messenger. (BlackBerry®) As noted above its
alarick Cell Phones & Science April 25, 2013 Explanation of Entry Selection Our entry was chosen because we originally wanted to do Star Wars but it was already chosen. So we improvised and chose the number one thing that teenagers use in their lives everyday which is cell phones. We are constantly being reminded about the dangers of cell phone overuse and it potential effects on our health. That’s…
Samantha Sanchez McAllister English 101 5 October 2012 Technology as the Educator The standard way of thinking about cellphones has it that they are a distraction to our society. On the contrary, I had the experience of using a mobile device in a classroom; I found it quite beneficial in the school’s environment. I looked around the classroom to see all the students interacting with the teacher’s lesson. This was a unique encounter with technology and education which can put these ideas into a new…
“Emerging technology and trends in cells phones” Chris Mares Management Information Systems 3358_601 December 02, 2012 Term Paper The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the emerging technology with new cell phones and along with that technology the trends that accompany that new technology. Every year there seems to be a new development toward cell phones and what they can accomplish. The evolution of the cell phone has been tremendous the past few years as it feels like…
outline The marvelous invention of the phone allows individuals the ability to communicate twenty four hours a day with the entire world. The telephone and its function have changed drastically over the last thirty years. The technology of the phone and its capability of accessing the world have improved tremendously. Leading it to become the single most used electronic device in the world. Society has become so dependent upon the new generation of the phone that many individuals fill as if…
(“Cellphones”). In the modernization of technology, the increase of cell phones has started to negatively impact the presentday society. Cell phones have done this through cyberbullying, isolation and texting and driving. Due to the excessive usage of social media on one’s cell phone, cyberbullying has increased and negatively impacted many teens. “More than a quarter of [teenagers have] been harassed via cellphones in [many different] ways” (“Forms of”). “Cell phone bullying has [made] new concer…
It's truly amazing to think how much technology impacts our lives from the cars we drive, television we watch, to the cell phones we use to communicate in every form possible that's available to use today. Being raised in a rurial area of Mississippi as a child, many of the modern day technologies were not at our disposal due to financial hardships that my family had to endure. At this point I would have to say that the cell phone is a technology that I would not be able to live without within reason…
Mobile phones have become a staple of society, with everyone from elementary school kids to senior citizens owning one. The technology of today provides us with a unique opportunity to examine how new media both reflect and affect the social world. A new social landscape has been reflected due to the creation and implementation of these devices into our daily lives. Most people today leave their house in the morning with their cup of coffee in one hand and their keys and cell phone in the other…
not your Phone Most people can text without causing an accident, so it’s safe for them, but throughout the years, the cell phone has brought conveniences and luxuries to many people across the United States. “Texiting is on the rise, up from 9.8 billion messages a month in December ’05 to 110.4 billion in December ’08” (Tesler).Not only has it made communication much easier, but when it comes to road safety gives drivers to emergency help at a moment’s notice. Unfortunately, phones can cause…
Technology has changed a lot of things in our lives. Technical inventions which has changed everything we do today. The biggest change came from the invention of the mobile phone. Ten years ago if the people were to think that everyone and their mother would have a cell phone, then they would have been looked at as though they were crazy. When the first cell phone came out only elite had it and they were considered to be bulky, and the call quality of these phones was absent. It was the building…
Away Cell phones! Throughout the years, society has been very dependent on technology. Almost everything Around us is powered by some form of technology. Computers are used to replace newspapers, and magazines. Escaladers are even used to replace stairs. In this world we live in, technology is basically taking over. Another technology based object is a cell phone and I for one, do not want one. Whether you know it or were even around for it, there was actually a point in time when cell phones…