By Sakala Reporters It's so so amazing how technology has helped advance communication and human civilization in everything. Technolo...
It's so so amazing how technology has helped advance communication and human civilization in everything. Technology has really changed the way we communicate. A long time ago here in Africa people used to communicate by sounding drums in villages and the sounding of drums used to vary from time to time depending with the event at hand. The way they sounded the drums people would know whether it was war, peace, marriage, funeral, colonation etc in the village or the nearby villages. At times they would make a big fire and it would send a message signifying something. Then they would send a message by the hand or mouth of a messenger from place to place just so the intended purpose was achieved.
As time went by due to advancements in human study of science and technology the globe was graced with communication by radio message, radio, television, mail postal service of the post offices, telegrams, land phones etc but all these had challenges that they came with though they were better than the drums and fire and other means especially here in Africa.
The radio stations would reach so many people but you would find that in a certain area nobody has a radio or there is no radio signal the same was the case even for the TV stations. The postal services was not so reliable because at the time they had no express services of mail delivery. To pass a message from Mbala where this repoter was born to Kit we where his uncle lived would take about two weeks on average so if it was to write and inform people that a funeral had taken place by the time the message would reach the other end you will find that burial has already passed as the culture and custom in this part of the world in to put one to rest at least within 3-5 days and mostly 3 days so it was a challenge. The telegrams had first of all the limitations of one not getting to write so many things because it's expensive and in many places the service was not available. But as time went by the coming of computers and mobile phones has really changed the way we communicate, advertise, entertain, get entertained, practice medical science, transmit information and store it and so much more. Nowadays people are able to work on from wherever on their computers, tablets, smartphones just like this reporter uses a Samsung smartphone to write and make news items and articles. This reporters accesses millions of information and news happening from all over the world from just the click on the button. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Email, Skype, YouTube, Blogs, Websites, ebay, Amazon etc are undoing postal services, newspapers, television stations, paperback books and magazines etc we must be ready to see even more of the things to come in this smart world era were already by one single click and in seconds information and messages are sent to and from one end of the world to the other something that has improved interaction, cultural exchange, religious etc yet the challenge of such technology being used to make pornography material more accessible and racial, tribal and many forms of discrimination to be spread is worrisome, human and drug trafficking has also been boosted by the advancement of technology because the criminals are able to take advantage of the smooth and easy way of reaching many people (their potential targets and victims) the scamers, yahoo boys, 419 and other fraudsters who have been ripping people of have been able to harm innocent and unsuspecting people especially on Facebook and email. Nevertheless it has worked the most in the good than in the evil all together and by the click of the button this news will reach USA, UK, Africa, Asia, South America and Australia now isn't it amazing? I bet you know the answer. From us here at Sakala Reporters we are committed to give you the latest and best news and urge you to subscribe to our news mailing list so that we can reach and meet your news needs.
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