Media Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

The definition of media is the means of communication. Since ancient times humans have chosen different forms of communications. They started with scriptures written on walls. Then they started using metal and it slowly developed towards people using paper and ink. Historians started to capture event, poets started to express themselves in written languages. All were kept as records to be shared. As we humans developed and the technologies along our side developed the media changed drastically. The wave of change in media not only changed the mode of communication but the humanity and humanism itself.

In ancient years around 3100 BC people used clay tablets to write. Slowly as we moved BC to AD history shows establishment of libraries and use of paper. Then with time around 1500 print media were established such as newspaper, magazines and printing press. As the time passed and the world went through the world war the need of news became more evident and necessary. When no one thought media could span further remarkable strides are made by invention of camera and radio.

Another remarkable invention of media was television & phones. Invention of television made dreams of people to see world true. People enjoyed the comfort of their home and yet were aware of what was happening in the world. Their knowledge of world started to expand. When telephone was created nobody would have thought that how quickly it would synchronized the world and open new era of possibilities for media

With time telephone became more advance, pictures on print and television became more fine and clear. As a successor of telephone mobile phones were introduced. The device that allowed human to answer calls or talk to their loved one from anywhere. On similar note introduction of internet also revolutionized the world. What was written as a code for NASA to communicate to space shuttle became a necessity for humanity. Today internet has become one of a basic need after air, food and clothes.

I am a millennial kid, meaning I have read text books, hand written letters but also I am efficient to browse web and draft emails. When I wonder how much media have changed something that follows that thought is how much will it change tomorrow? What new invention in media will open up an entire new possibility of advancement or what old media will be lost with time?